Notes on cohomologies of ternary algebras of associative type (Q838425)

The authors study ternary algebras satisfying identical relation of third degree which generalizes the associativity. The purpose is to investigate cohomologies adapted to deformation theory of such algebras appearing more or less naturally in various domains of theoretical and mathematical physics and data processing. The authors continue their work [J. Gen. Lie Theory Appl. 1, No. 1, 41--55 (2007; Zbl 1160.17004)] on deformations of partially associative ternary algebras intimately linked to cohomology groups. They show that the usual deformation cohomology does not exist in this case which implies that the operad of partially associative ternary algebras is not Koszul. Then they consider weak totally associative ternary algebras and construct for them a \(p\)-coboundary operator extending, to any \(p\), the 2-coboundary operators already defined by Takhtajan. Also, the authors apply the Takhtajan's construction (of the cohomology of ternary Nambu-Lie algebras based on the Chevalley-Eilenberg cohomology of Lie algebras) to the case of ternary algebras of associative type. They show that the usual cohomology of ternary algebras of partially associative type cannot be constructed from binary algebras of associative type. Finally, the skew-associative binary algebras do not carry the usual cohomology fitting with deformation theory and therefore their operad is not Koszul as well.