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for questions about deformation theory, including deformations of manifolds, schemes, Galois representations, and von Neumann algebras.

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Deformation theory of representations of an algebraic group

The statements about the group and Lie algebra in the question are special cases of a more general fact. Namely, if $A$ is an associative algebra and $V$ an $A$-module, then obstructions to deformat …
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What is a deformation of a category?

Here is a definition that I heard: a family of additive categories over a scheme $X$ (say, defined over a field $k$) is an $k$-linear additive category ${\mathcal C}$ equipped with a structure of a mo …
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What is a deformation of a category?

Maybe it is helpful to look at these lectures by Yekutieli: arXiv:0801.3233. There he discusses twisted deformations of algebraic varieties $X$ suggested by Kontsevich, i.e. deformations of the catego …
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