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EPSRC Reference: EP/M02525X/1
Title: Integrable derivations and Hochschild cohomology of block algebras of finite groups
Principal Investigator: Linckelmann, Professor M
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Department: Sch of Engineering and Mathematical Sci
Organisation: City, University of London
Scheme: Standard Research
Starts: 01 April 2015 Ends: 31 August 2018 Value (£): 341,698
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:
Algebra & Geometry
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No relevance to Underpinning Sectors
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Panel History:
Panel DatePanel NameOutcome
03 Mar 2015 EPSRC Mathematics Prioritisation Panel March 2015 Announced
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The product rule of the all familiar operation of taking derivatives of real valued functions has a plethora

of generalisations and applications in algebra. It leads to the notion of derivations of algebras - these

are linear endomorphisms of an algebra satifying the product rule. They represent the classes of

the first Hochschild cohomology of an algebra. The first Hochschild cohomology of an algebra

turns out to be a Lie algebra, and more precisely, a restricted Lie algebra if the underlying

base ring is a field of positive characteristic. The (restricted) Lie algebra structure extends to

all positive degrees in Hochschild cohomology - this goes back to pioneering work of Gerstenhaber

on defornations of algebras.

Modular representation theory of finite groups seeks to understand the connections between

the structure of finite groups and the associated group algebras. Many of the conjectures that drive

this area are - to date mysterious - numerical coincidences relating invariants of finite

group algebras to invariants of the underlying groups. The sophisticated cohomological

technology hinted at in the previous paragraph is expected to yield some insight regarding these

coincidences, and the present proposal puts the focus on some precise and unexplored

invariance properties of certain groups of integrable derivations under Morita, derived, or stable

equivalences between indecomposable algebra factors of finite group algebras, their character theory,

their automorphism groups, and the local structure of finite groups.

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