Cohomology of Hecke algebras

David Benson, Karin Erdmann and Aram Mikaelian

We compute the cohomology H*(H,k)=Ext*H(k,k) where H=H(n,q) is the Hecke algebra of the symmetric group Sn at a primitive lth root of unity q, and k is a field of characteristic zero. The answer is particularly interesting when l = 2, which is the only case where it is not graded commutative. We also carry out the corresponding computation for Hecke algebras of type Bn and Dn when l is odd.

Homology, Homotopy and Applications, Vol. 12 (2010), No. 2, pp.353-370.

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