Gerstenhaber duality in Hochschild cohomology

Gerstenhaber Brackets on Hochschild Cohomology of Twisted Tensor Products

We construct the Gerstenhaber bracket on Hochschild cohomology of a twisted tensor product of algebras, and, as examples, compute Gerstenhaber brackets for some quantum complete intersections arising in work of Buchweitz, Green, Madsen, and Solberg. We prove that a subalgebra of the Hochschild cohomology ring of a twisted tensor product, on which the twisting is trivial, is isomorphic, as a Ger...

Gerstenhaber Brackets on Hochschild Cohomology of Quantum Symmetric Algebras and Their Group Extensions

We construct chain maps between the bar and Koszul resolutions for a quantum symmetric algebra (skew polynomial ring). This construction uses a recursive technique involving explicit formulae for contracting homotopies. We use these chain maps to compute the Gerstenhaber bracket, obtaining a quantum version of the Schouten-Nijenhuis bracket on a symmetric algebra (polynomial ring). We compute b...

Higher order Hochschild cohomology

Following ideas of Pirashvili, we define higher order Hochschild cohomology over spheres S defined for any commutative algebra A and module M . When M = A, we prove that this cohomology is equipped with graded commutative algebra and degree d Lie algebra structures as well as with Adams operations. All operations are compatible in a suitable sense. These structures are related to Brane topology...

Alternated Hochschild Cohomology

In this paper we construct a graded Lie algebra on the space of cochains on a Z2-graded vector space that are skew-symmetric in the odd variables. The Lie bracket is obtained from the classical Gerstenhaber bracket by (partial) skew-symmetrization; the coboundary operator is a skew-symmetrized version of the Hochschild differential. We show that an order-one element m satisfying the zero-square...

Second Hochschild Cohomology of Convolution Algebras