Hochschild cohomology of Lie-Rinehart algebras

Abstract

We compute the Hochschild cohomology of universal enveloping algebras of Lie-Rinehart algebras in terms of the Poisson cohomology of the associated graded quotient algebras. Central in our approach are two cochain complexes of "nonlinear Chevalley-Eilenberg" cochains whose origins lie in Lie-Rinehart modules "up to homotopy", one on the Hochschild cochains of the base algebra, another related to the adjoint representation. The Poincare-Birkhoff-Witt isomorphism is then extended to a certain intertwiner between such modules. Finally, exploiting the twisted Calabi-Yau structure, we obtain results for the dual Hochschild and cyclic homology.