A Geometric Approach to Hochschild Cohomology of the Exterior Algebra
arXiv:1607.02661
Abstract
We give a new computation of Hochschild (co)homology of the exterior algebra, together with algebraic structures, by direct comparison with the symmetric algebra. The Hochschild cohomology is determined to be essentially the algebra of even-weight polyvector fields. From Kontsevich's formality theorem, the differential graded Lie algebra of Hochschild cochains is proved to be formal when the vector space generating the exterior algebra is even dimensional. We conjecture that formality fails in the odd dimensional case, proving this when the dimension is one. In all dimensions, formal deformations of the exterior algebra are classified by formal Poisson structures.
23 pages. References added. Typos in section 6 corrected
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