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The support variety of a module over a group algebra is an affine variety that encodes many of the homological properties of the module. Although the definition of the support variety is given in terms of the cohomology ring of the group, it can be computed directly from the actions of the elementary abelian subgroups.
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Carlson, J.F. (2006). Support varieties for modules. In: Bosma, W., Cannon, J. (eds) Discovering Mathematics with Magma. Algorithms and Computation in Mathematics, vol 19. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-37634-7_8
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