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Cohomology of vertex algebras

Quantum Algebra 2016-03-28 v1

Abstract

Let VV be a vertex algebra and MM a VV-module. We define the first and second cohomology of VV with coefficients in MM, and we show that the second cohomology H2(V,M)H^{2}(V, M) corresponds bijectively to the set of equivalence classes of square-zero extensions of VV by MM. In the case that M=VM=V, we show that the second cohomology H2(V,V)H^{2}(V, V) corresponds bijectively to the set of equivalence classes of first order deformations of VV.

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@article{arxiv.1603.07958,
  title  = {Cohomology of vertex algebras},
  author = {Jose I. Liberati},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.07958},
  year   = {2016}
}

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11 pages. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1008.2351 by other authors