The Tate-Hochschild cohomology ring of a group algebra

Abstract: We show that the Tate-Hochschild cohomology ring

H H^{*} (R G, R G)

of a finite group algebra

R G

is isomorphic to a direct sum of the Tate cohomology rings of the centralizers of conjugacy class representatives of

G

. Moreover, our main result provides an explicit formula for the cup product in

H H^{*} (R G, R G)

with respect to this decomposition. As an example, this formula helps us to compute the Tate-Hochschild cohomology ring of the symmetric group

S_{3}

with coefficients in a field of characteristic 3.

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