Braided Hochschild cohomology and Hopf actions

  • Cris Negron

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA
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Abstract

We showt hat the braided Hochschild cohomology, of an algebra in a suitably algebraic braided monoidal category, admits a graded ring structure under which it is braided commutative. We then give a canonical identification between the usual Hochschild cohomology ring of a smash product and the (derived) invariants of its braided Hochschild cohomology ring. We apply our results to identify the associative formal deformation theory of a smash product with its formal deformation theory as a module algebra over the given Hopf algebra (when the Hopf algebra is sufficiently semisimple). As a second application we deduce some structural results for the usual Hochschild cohomology of a smash product, and discuss specific implications for finite group actions on smooth affine schemes.

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Cris Negron, Braided Hochschild cohomology and Hopf actions. J. Noncommut. Geom. 13 (2019), no. 1, pp. 1–33

DOI 10.4171/JNCG/308