Poisson cohomology of the affine plane (Q1614663)

The article under review is concerned with the computation of the Poisson cohomology \(H^*(A,\phi)\) of the Poisson algebra \(A={\mathbb F}[x,y]\) of regular functions on the affine plane over a field \({\mathbb F}\) of characteristic 0 with respect to the Poisson bracket given by a homogeneous polynomial \(\phi\) in 2 variables of degree \(n\). The new feature is the complete resolution of the problem in this case, whereas up to now only results on quadratic Poisson structures or Poisson structures in an equivariant setting were known (with the exception of \textit{P. Monnier}'s article [Poisson cohomology in dimension two, Isr. J. Math. 129, 189-207 (2002; Zbl 1077.17018)], which treats germs of Poisson structures). Denote by \(\Gamma_{\phi}\) the singular locus of \(\phi\), i.e. the plane algebraic curve \(\phi(x,y)=0\) in \(\bar{\mathbb F}^2\). Then, the main theorem reads: Theorem: (1) If \(\phi\) is squarefree, then \[ \dim H^2(A,\phi)= n(n-1)\quad \text{and}\quad \dim H^1(A,\phi)=n. \] Note that \(n(n-1)\) is twice the number of singular points of \(\Gamma_{\phi}\) (with multiplicities) and that \(n\) is the number of irreducible components of \(\Gamma_{\phi}\). (2) If \(\phi\) is not squarefree, then \(H^1(A,\phi)\) and \(H^2(A,\phi)\) are infinite dimensional.