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Deformation Theory Seminar

Wednesday, October 26, 2011 - 1:00pm

Valentin Ovsienko

Univ Lyon 1

Location

University of Pennsylvania

DRL 2C4

Double header today - Ovsienko at 1, Zahariev at 2:30

I will construct a graded Lie algebra on the space of cochains on a $Z_2$-graded vector space, skew-symmetric in the odd variables. The Lie bracket is obtained from the classical Gerstenhaber bracket by (partial) skew-symmetrization; the coboundary operator is an amazing mixture of the Hochschild and Chevalley-Eilenberg differentials. I will show that an order-one element $m$ satisfying the zero-square condition defines an algebraic structure called ``Lie antialgebra´´, I will explain geometric origins of these algebras. Two examples of non-trivial cohomology classes will be constructed, these classes are similar to the celebrated Gelfand-Fuchs and Godbillon-Vey classes.