Homotopy liftings and Hochschild cohomology of some twisted tensor products

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...

Cohomology of Twisted Tensor Products

It is well known that the cohomology of a tensor product is essentially the tensor product of the cohomologies. We look at twisted tensor products, and investigate to which extent this is still true. We give an explicit description of the Ext-algebra of the tensor product of two modules, and under certain additional conditions, describe an essential part of the Hochschild cohomology ring of a t...

Hochschild Cohomology and Moduli Spaces of Strongly Homotopy Associative Algebras

Motivated by ideas from stable homotopy theory we study the space of strongly homotopy associative multiplications on a two-cell chain complex. In the simplest case this moduli space is isomorphic to the set of orbits of a group of invertible power series acting on a certain space. The Hochschild cohomology rings of resulting A∞-algebras have an interpretation as totally ramified extensions of ...

Hochschild Cohomology of Smash Products and Rank One Hopf Algebras

We give some general results on the ring structure of Hochschild cohomology of smash products of algebras with Hopf algebras. We compute this ring structure explicitly for a large class of finite dimensional Hopf algebras of rank one.

Second Hochschild Cohomology of Convolution Algebras