Gerstenhaber brackets on Hochschild cohomology of general twisted tensor products

We present techniques for computing Gerstenhaber brackets on Hochschild cohomology of general twisted tensor product algebras. These techniques involve twisted tensor product resolutions and are based on recent results on Gerstenhaber brackets expressed on arbitrary bimodule resolutions.     

Products in Hochschild cohomology and Grothendieck rings of group crossed products

We give a general construction of rings graded by the conjugacy classes of a finite group. Some examples of our construction are the Hochschild cohomology ring of a finite group algebra, the Grothendieck ring of the Drinfel'd double of a group, and the orbifold cohomology ring for a global quotient. We generalize the first two examples by deriving product formulas for the Hochschild cohomology ring of a group crossed product and for the Grothendieck ring of an abelian extension of Hopf algebras. Our results account for similarities in the product structures among these examples.     

Group actions on algebras and the graded Lie structure of Hochschild cohomology

Hochschild cohomology governs deformations of algebras, and its graded Lie structure plays a vital role. We study this structure for the Hochschild cohomology of the skew group algebra formed by a finite group acting on an algebra by automorphisms. We examine the Gerstenhaber bracket with a view toward deformations and developing bracket formulas. We then focus on the linear group actions and polynomial algebras that arise in orbifold theory and representation theory; deformations in this context include graded Hecke algebras and symplectic reflection algebras. We give some general results describing when brackets are zero for polynomial skew group algebras, which allow us in particular to find noncommutative Poisson structures. For abelian groups, we express the bracket using inner products of group characters. Lastly, we interpret results for graded Hecke algebras.     

Hochschild Cohomology of <Emphasis Type="Italic">q</Emphasis>-Schur Algebras

We compute the Hochschild cohomology of any block of q-Schur algebras. We focus on the even part of this Hochschild cohomology ring. To compute the Hochschild cohomology of q-Schur algebras, we prove the following two results: first, we construct two graded algebra surjections between the Hochschild cohomologies of quasi-hereditary algebras because all q-Schur algebras over a field are quasi-hereditary. Second, we give the graded algebra isomorphism of Hochschild cohomologies by using a certain derive equivalence.     

Hochschild cohomology and Atiyah classes

In this paper we prove that on a smooth algebraic variety the HKR-morphism twisted by the square root of the Todd genus gives an isomorphism between the sheaf of poly-vector fields and the sheaf of poly-differential operators, both considered as derived Gerstenhaber algebras. In particular we obtain an isomorphism between Hochschild cohomology and the cohomology of poly-vector fields which is compatible with the Lie bracket and the cupproduct. The latter compatibility is an unpublished result by Kontsevich.Our proof is set in the framework of Lie algebroids and so applies without modification in much more general settings as well.     

Batalin-Vilkovisky Algebras and Cyclic Cohomology of Hopf Algebras

We show that the Connes–Moscovici negative cyclic cohomology of a Hopf algebra equipped with a character has a Lie bracket of degree -2. More generally, we show that a cyclic operad with multiplication is a cocyclic module whose simplicial cohomology is a Batalin–Vilkovisky algebra and whose negative cyclic cohomology is a graded Lie algebra of degree -2. This generalizes the fact that the Hochschild cohomology algebra of a symmetric algebra is a Batalin–Vilkovisky algebra.     

Radical cube zero weakly symmetric algebras and support varieties

One of our main results is a classification of all the weakly symmetric radical cube zero finite dimensional algebras over an algebraically closed field having a theory of support via the Hochschild cohomology ring satisfying Dade’s Lemma. In the process we give a characterization of when a finite dimensional Koszul algebra has such a theory of support in terms of the graded centre of the Koszul dual.     

Batalin–Vilkovisky algebra structures on Hochschild cohomology of generalized Weyl algebras

We devote to the calculation of Batalin–Vilkovisky algebra structures on the Hochschild cohomology of skew Calabi–Yau generalized Weyl algebras. We first establish a Van den Bergh duality at the level of complex. Then based on the results of Solotar et al., we apply Kowalzig and Krähmer's method to the Hochschild homology of generalized Weyl algebras, and translate the homological information into cohomological one by virtue of the Van den Bergh duality, obtaining the desired Batalin–Vilkovisky algebra structures. Finally, we apply our results to quantum weighted projective lines and Podleś quantum spheres, and the Batalin–Vilkovisky algebra structures for them are described completely.     

Stable equivalences of Morita type and stable Hochschild cohomology rings

We prove that a stable equivalence of Morita type between finite dimensional algebras preserves the stable Hochschild cohomology rings, that is, Hochschild cohomology rings modulo the projective center, thus generalizing the results of Pogorzały and Xi.     

Gerstenhaber Algebra Structure on the Hochschild Cohomology of Quadratic String Algebras

We describe the Gerstenhaber algebra structure on the Hochschild cohomology HH^?(A) when A is a quadratic string algebra. First we compute the Hochschild cohomology groups using Barzdell’s resolution and we describe generators of these groups. Then we construct comparison morphisms between the bar resolution and Bardzell’s resolution in order to get formulae for the cup product and the Lie bracket. We find conditions on the bound quiver associated to string algebras in order to get non-trivial structures.     

A family of Koszul self-injective algebras with finite Hochschild cohomology

This paper presents an infinite family of Koszul self-injective algebras whose Hochschild cohomology ring is finite-dimensional. Moreover, for each $N?5$ we give an example where the Hochschild cohomology ring has dimension $N$. This family of algebras includes and generalizes the 4-dimensional Koszul self-injective local algebras of [R.-O. Buchweitz, E.L. Green, D. Madsen, Ø. Solberg, Finite Hochschild cohomology without finite global dimension, Math. Res. Lett. 12 (2005) 805–816] which were used to give a negative answer to Happel’s question, in that they have infinite global dimension but finite-dimensional Hochschild cohomology.     

K-Theory of Braided Monoidal Categories

We show that the commutativity constraint of a braided monoidal category gives rise to an algebraic structure on its K-theory known as a Gerstenhaber algebra. If, in addition, the braiding has a compatible balanced structure the Gerstenhaber bracket on the K-theory is generated by a Batalin–Vilkovisky differential. We use these algebraic structures to prove a generalization of the Anderson–Moore–Vafa theorem which says that the order of the twist, in a semi-simple balanced monoidal category with duals and finitely many simple objects, is finite.     

Hochschild cohomology of brauer tree algebras

The aim of this paper is to study the structure of the Hochschild cohomology ring of Brauer tree algebras. We explicitly describe the even cohomology ring by generators and relations. This generalizes results of [11] on the Hochschild cohomology of blocks of modular group algebras with cyclic defect groups.     

Z_n分次代数的Hochschild上同调群

本文给出了Z_n分次代数A的Hochschild上同调群的定义,对低阶Hochschild上同调群进行了刻画.利用第一阶Hochschild上同调群给出了Z_n分次代数为分次可分代数的充要条件,证明了第二阶Hochschild上同调群的零次分支与A的Hochschild扩张之间的一一对应关系.     

一类量子Koszul代数的${\mathbb{Z}}_{2}$-Galois 覆盖的 Hochschild上同调

考虑一类量子Koszul代数的 ${\mathbb{Z}}_{2}$-Galois覆盖$\Lambda_{\q}$, 并计算 这类代数的各阶Hochschild上同调群的维数, 进而利用道路的语言, 刻画了 Hochschild上同调环的cup积. 作为应用, 给出了这类代数的Hochschild上同调环模掉幂零理想的 代数结构.