Hochschild cohomology of Abelian categories and ringed spaces (Q2577485)

The authors shown first that the deformation theory of abelian categories is controlled by an obstruction theory in terms of a suitable notion of Hochschild cohomology for abelian categories. They then shown that this Hochschild cohomology coincides with the one defined by \textit{M. Gerstenhaber, S.D. Schack} [Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 279, 1--50 (1983; Zbl 0544.18005)] and \textit{R.G. Swan} [J. Pure Appl. Algebra 110, No.1, 57--80 (1996; Zbl 0865.18010)] in the case of module categories over diagrams and schemes and also with the Hochschild cohomology for exact categories introduced recently by Keller. In addition they shown in complete generality that Hochschild cohomology satisfies a Mayer-Vietoris property and that for constantly ringed spaces it coincides with the cohomology of the structure sheaf.