On certain cohomological invariants of groups Ioannis Emmanouil Abstract. In this paper, we show that the invariants silpZG and spliZG, which were introduced by Gedrich and Gruenberg in [10], are equal for any group G. As an application, we show that a group G is finite if and only if cdG = 0, where cd is the generalized cohomological dimension of groups introduced by Ikenaga in [15].