Ayako Itaba

Staic defined symmetric cohomology of groups and studied that the secondary symmetric cohomology group is corresponding to group extensions and the injectivity of the canonical map from symmetric cohomology to classical cohomology. In this paper, we define symmetric cohomology and symmetric Hochschild cohomology for cocommutative Hopf algebras. The first one is a generalization of symmetric cohomology of groups. We give an isomorphism between symmetric cohomology and symmetric Hochschild cohomology, which is a symmetric version of the classical result about cohomology of groups by Eilenberg and MacLane and cohomology of Hopf algebras by Ginzburg and Kumar. Moreover, to consider the condition that symmetric cohomology coincides with classical cohomology, we investigate the projectivity of a resolution which gives symmetric cohomology.