The Gerstenhaber structure on the Hochschild cohomology of a class of special biserial algebras
In this article, the authors have determined completely the Gerstenhaber structure on the Hochschild cohomology ring \(\textbf{HH}^{\bullet}(A_N (m))\) of a class \(A_N(m)\) of self-injective special biserial algebras, where it is assumed that \( m \geq 3\) and that the characteristic of the associated field does not divide \(2, N\) or \(m\). These algebras have been presented as quotients of the path algebras of a certain quiver. For the case of degree one, it is shown that the cohomology is isomorphic, as a Lie algebra, to a direct sum of copies of a subquotient of the Virasoro algebra. These copies share Virasoro degree 0 and commute otherwise. Finally, the authors have described the cohomology in degree \(n\) as a module over this Lie algebra by providing its decomposition as a direct sum of indecomposable modules.
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