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Remarks on formal deformations and Batalin-Vilkovisky algebras

Abstract

This note consists of two parts. Part I is an exposition of (a part of) the V.Drinfeld's letter, [D]. The sheaf of algebras of polyvector fields on a Calabi-Yau manifold, equipped with the Schouten bracket, admits a structure of a Batalin-Vilkovisky algebra. This fact was probably first noticed by Z.Ran, [R]. Part II is devoted to some generalizations of this remark.

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Vadim Schechtman. 1998-02-10. Remarks on formal deformations and Batalin-Vilkovisky algebras. https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9802006

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