On formal non-commutative deformations of smooth varieties

Abstract

We will develop a formal non-commutative (NC) deformation theory of smooth algebraic varieties $X$ defined over a field $k$, and describe a semi-universal deformation where the tangent space $T^1$ and the obstruction space $T^2$ are given as subspaces of Hochschild cohomology groups.

23 pages, a new section is added for twisted deformations