Continuous Cocycles Endowed with Point-Open Topology

Abstract: Given a topological group $ G $ and a Hausdorff topological group $ A $ on which $ G $ acts continuously and compatibly with the group operation of $ A $, we study the set of continuous cocycles of $ G $ with value in $ A $. This set is a function space and can be endowed with several topologies. By imposing a suitable function space topology on the set of cocycles of $ G $ with value in $ A $, we propose a topological study of this set, and we prove, as our first main result, that if $ A $ is a compact group having a presentation as an inverse limit of compact and Hausdorff topological groups $ A_{r} $, for $ r $ in a directed poset $ R $, on which $ G $ acts continuously and compatibly with the group operation of $ A_{r} $ and equivariantly with respect to the transition maps, then one has a natural identification between the first nonabelian cohomology set of $ G $ with coefficients in the inverse limit $ A $ and the inverse limit of first nonabelian cohomology sets of $ G $ with coefficients in $ A_{r} $. Furthermore, we prove, as our second main result, that if $ G $ is compact and Hausdorff, and $ A $ is abelian - therefore one can define cohomology groups for all $ n\geq1 $ - then under a certain condition on $ A_{r} $ one has a natural identification between cohomology group with coefficients in the inverse limit $ A $ and the inverse limit of cohomology groups with coefficients in $ A_{r} $, for all $ n\geq1 $.