Products in Hochschild cohomology and Grothendieck rings of group crossed products. (Q1826883)

The aim of the paper is to give a general construction of rings graded by the conjugacy classes of a finite group. Examples include the Hochschild cohomology ring of a finite group algebra, the Grothendieck ring of the Drinfeld double of a group, and the orbifold cohomology ring for a global quotient. The author also derives a product formula for the Hochschild cohomology ring of a group crossed product and for the Grothendieck ring of an Abelian extension of a Hopf algebra.