From: Berrick A J Subject: RE: question & 2 confs Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 08:13:09 +0800 Alexei Davydov and I have a preprint on this subject, in which we derive a Hochschild cohomology obstruction to the multiplicative splitting of the sequence. We can even calculate it in certain important situations that we need for computation of the cohomology of Heisenberg groups. Best regards, Jon.