We define a BV-structure on the Hochschild cohomology of a unital, associative algebra $A$ with a symmetric, invariant and non-degenerate inner product. The induced Gerstenhaber algebra is the one described in Gerstenhaber’s original paper on Hochschild-cohomology. We also prove the corresponding theorem in the homotopy case, namely we define the BV-structure on the Hochschild-cohomology of a unital $A_{\infty }$-algebra with a symmetric and non-degenerate $\infty$-inner product.

Let M be a closed orientable manifold of dimension dand ${𝒞}^{*}\left(M\right)$ be the usual cochain algebra on M with coefficients in a fieldk. The Hochschild cohomology of M, $H{H}^{*}({𝒞}^{*}\left(M\right);{𝒞}^{*}\left(M\right))$ is a graded commutative and associative algebra. The augmentation map $\epsilon :{𝒞}^{*}\left(M\right)\to 𝑘$ induces a morphism of algebras $I:H{H}^{*}({𝒞}^{*}\left(M\right);{𝒞}^{*}\left(M\right))\to H{H}^{*}({𝒞}^{*}\left(M\right);𝑘)$. In this paper we produce a chain model for the morphism I. We show that the kernel of I is a nilpotent ideal and that the image of I is contained in the center of $H{H}^{*}({𝒞}^{*}\left(M\right);𝑘)$, which is in general quite small. The algebra $H{H}^{*}({𝒞}^{*}\left(M\right);{𝒞}^{*}\left(M\right))$ is expected to be isomorphic...

This paper studies the Hochschild cohomology of finite-dimensional monomial algebras. If Λ = K/I with I an admissible monomial ideal, then we give sufficient conditions for the existence of an embedding of $K[x₁,...,x_r]/⟨x_a{x}_{b}fora\ne b⟩$ into the Hochschild cohomology ring HH*(Λ). We also introduce stacked algebras, a new class of monomial algebras which includes Koszul and D-Koszul monomial algebras. If Λ is a stacked algebra, we prove that $HH*\left(\Lambda \right)/\cong K[x₁,...,x_r]/⟨x_a{x}_{b}fora\ne b⟩$, where is the ideal in HH*(Λ) generated by the homogeneous nilpotent elements. In...

We determine the algebra structure of the Hochschild cohomology of the singular cochain algebra with coefficients in a field on a space whose cohomology is a polynomial algebra. A spectral sequence calculation of the Hochschild cohomology is also described. In particular, when the underlying field is of characteristic two, we determine the associated bigraded Batalin-Vilkovisky algebra structure on the Hochschild cohomology of the singular cochain on a space whose cohomology is an exterior algebra....

The Wells map relates automorphisms with cohomology in the setting of extensions of groups and Lie algebras. We construct the Wells map for some abelian extensions $0\to A\hookrightarrow L\stackrel{\pi }{\to }B\to 0$ of 3-Lie algebras to obtain obstruction classes in $H^1(B,A)$ for a pair of automorphisms in $\mathrm{Aut}\left(A\right)\times \mathrm{Aut}\left(B\right)$ to be inducible from an automorphism of $L$. Application to free nilpotent 3-Lie algebras is discussed.