Hochschild homology and cohomology of down–up algebras

Abstract

We present a detailed computation of the cyclic and the Hochschild homology and cohomology of generic and 3-Calabi–Yau homogeneous down–up algebras. This family was defined by Benkart and Roby in [3] in their study of differential posets. Our calculations are completely explicit, by making use of the Koszul bimodule resolution and some arguments similar to those used in [13] to compute the Hochschild cohomology of Yang–Mills algebras.