Second Hochschild cohomology of convolution algebras (Q537070)

Let \(A\) be a Banach algebra. A Banach \({\mathcal A}\)-bimodule \({\mathcal X}\) is said to be symmetric if \(a\cdot x = x \cdot a,\) when \(a \in{\mathcal A}\) and \(x \in{\mathcal X}.\) The character space on the Banach algebra \(A\) is denoted by \(\Phi_{{\mathcal A}}.\) For all \(\varphi \in \Phi_{{\mathcal A}} \cup \{0\},\) the set of complex numbers \({\mathcal C}\) with the following module actions, \[ a\cdot z = z \cdot a = \varphi(a)z \quad (a \in \mathcal{A}, z\in{\mathcal C}), \] becomes a symmetric Banach \({\mathcal A}\)-bimodule which is denoted by \({\mathcal C}_{\varphi}.\) The authors show that the second-order Hochschild cohomology groups of the measure algebra \(M(G)\) and the group algebra \(L^1(G)\) with coefficients in \({\mathcal C}_{\varphi}\) are Banach spaces where \(G\) is a locally compact group and \(\varphi\) is the augmentation character.