Gerstenhaber brackets on Hochschild cohomology of general twisted tensor products (Q1996049)

Any algebra over a field with underlying vector space given by a tensor product of two subalgebras can be identified with a twisted tensor product algebra. This result is due to Čap, Schichl and Vanžura in [\textit{A. Čap} et al., Commun. Algebra 23, No. 12, 4701--4735 (1995; Zbl 0842.16005)]. There is a Gerstenhaber algebra structure on the Hochschild cohomology of algebras over fields. This means that Hochschild cohomology is a graded commutative algebra via the cup product, it has graded Lie bracket of degree \(-1\) (which is called Gerstenhaber bracket) that endows it with a graded Lie algebra structure and, the bracket is graded biderivation. In Section 2, the authors recall basic facts about twisted tensor product algebras and how to obtain twisted tensor product resolutions using projective resolutions of bimodules that are compatible with the twisting. The above hypotheses needed for obtaining twisted tensor product resolutions are satisfied in the case of bar and Koszul resolutions. In an article by \textit{C. Negron} and \textit{S. Witherspoon} [Homology Homotopy Appl. 18, No. 1, 265--285 (2016; Zbl 1353.16008)], published in 2016, the authors developed techniques for computing Gerstenhaber brackets of Hochschild cohomology using other (than bar resolution) bimodule resolutions. The conditions which a projective resolution should satisfy in order to apply these techniques are given in Section 3, more precisely see Theorem 3.3. The main result is Theorem 3.11, generalizing some older results, where it is proved that under some conditions, Gerstenhaber brackets can be computed on twisted tensor product resolutions using Negron and Witherspoon's techniques [loc. cit.]. The Jordan plane is given as an example in Section 4 to illustrate the above results.