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Abstract for MSRI Preprint 1995-044

The second bounded cohomology of a group with infinitely many ends

Koji Fujiwara

We study the second bounded cohomology of an amalgamated free product of groups, and an HNN extension of a group. As an application, we have a group with infinitely many ends has infinite dimensional second bounded cohomology.