Let G be a connected complex algebraic group and A an abelian connected algebraic group, together with an algebraic action of G on A via group automorphisms. The aim of this article is to study the group of isomorphism classes of extensions of G by A in the algebraic group category. We describe this group as a direct sum of the group Hom(π1([G,G]), A) and a relative Lie algebra cohomology space. We also prove a version of Van Est’s theorem for algebraic groups, identifying the cohomology of G with values in a G-module a in terms of relative Lie algebra cohomology.
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Kumar, S., & Neeb, K. H. (2006). Extensions of algebraic groups. In Progress in Mathematics (Vol. 243, pp. 365–376). Springer Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-8176-4478-4_13
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