Cohomology and deformations in graded Lie algebras

In an address to the Society in 1962, one of the authors gave an outline of the similarities between the deformations of complex-analytic structures on compact manifolds on one hand, and the deformations of associative algebras on the other. The first theory had been stimulated in 1957 by a paper [7] by Nijenhuis-Frlicher and extensively developed in a series of papers by Kodaira-Spencer, Kodaira-Spencer-Nirenberg and Kuranishi; the second had just been initiated by Gerstenhaber While fine details were not available at that time, it seemed that graded Lie algebras were the common core of both theories. In particular, in both cases, the set of deformed structures is represented by the set of solutions of a certain deformation equation in graded Lie algebras. This observation was further elaborated in a Research Announcement [16] of the authors, in which the concept of algebraic graded Lie algebra was carefully defined, and in which applications to deformations of Lie algebras and to representations, extensions and homomorphisms of algebras were indicated.

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