Abstract
Necessary and sufficient isomorphism conditions for the second cohomology group of an algebraic group with an irreducible root system over an algebraically closed field of characteristic p ≥ 3h − 3, where h stands for the Coxeter number, and the corresponding second cohomology group of its Lie algebra with coefficients in simple modules are obtained, and also some nontrivial examples of isomorphisms of the second cohomology groups of simple modules are found. In particular, it follows from the results obtained here that, among the simple algebraic groups SL2(k), SL3(k), SL4(k), Sp4(k), and G 2, nontrivial isomorphisms of this kind exist for SL4(k) and G 2 only. For SL4(k), there are two simple modules with nontrivial second cohomology and, for G 2, there is one module of this kind. All nontrivial examples of second cohomology obtained here are one-dimensional.