Extensions of associative algebras

Abstract

In this paper, we translate the problem of extending an associative algebra by another associative algebra into the language of codifferentials. The authors have been constructing moduli spaces of algebras and studying their structure by constructing their versal deformations. The codifferential language is very useful for this purpose. The goal of this paper is to express the classical results about extensions in a form which leads to a simpler construction of moduli spaces of low-dimensional algebras.