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The Tate-Hochschild cohomology ring of a group algebra

Rings and Algebras 2012-12-05 v1 K-Theory and Homology Representation Theory

Abstract

We show that the Tate-Hochschild cohomology ring HH(RG,RG)HH^*(RG,RG) of a finite group algebra RGRG is isomorphic to a direct sum of the Tate cohomology rings of the centralizers of conjugacy class representatives of GG. Moreover, our main result provides an explicit formula for the cup product in HH(RG,RG)HH^*(RG,RG) with respect to this decomposition. As an example, this formula helps us to compute the Tate-Hochschild cohomology ring of the symmetric group S3S_3 with coefficients in a field of characteristic 3.

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@article{arxiv.1212.0774,
  title  = {The Tate-Hochschild cohomology ring of a group algebra},
  author = {Van C. Nguyen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1212.0774},
  year   = {2012}
}

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15 pages