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The purpose of the Letter is to show how to use the cohomology of the Nijenhuis-Richardson graded Lie algebra of a vector space to construct formal deformations of each Lie algebra structure of that space. One then shows that the de Rham cohomology of a smooth manifold produces a family of cohomology classes of the graded Lie algebra of the space of smooth functions on the manifold. One uses these classes and the general construction above to provide one-differential formal deformations of the Poisson Lie algebra of the Poisson manifolds and to classify all these deformations in the symplectic case.
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Lecomte, P.B.A. Application of the cohomology of graded Lie algebras to formal deformations of Lie Algebras. Letters in Mathematical Physics 13, 157–166 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00955206
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00955206