Cohomology and deformations of twisted Rota–Baxter operators and NS-algebras

Abstract

The aim of this paper is twofold. In the first part, we consider twisted Rota–Baxter operators on associative algebras that were introduced by Uchino as a noncommutative analogue of twisted Poisson structures. We construct an $$L_\infty $$ -algebra whose Maurer–Cartan elements are given by twisted Rota–Baxter operators. This leads to cohomology associated to a twisted Rota–Baxter operator. This cohomology can be seen as the Hochschild cohomology of a certain associative algebra with coefficients in a suitable bimodule. We study deformations of twisted Rota–Baxter operators by means of the above-defined cohomology. Application is given to Reynolds operators. In the second part, we consider NS-algebras of Leroux that are related to twisted Rota–Baxter operators in the same way dendriform algebras are related to Rota–Baxter operators. We define cohomology of NS-algebras using non-symmetric operads and study their deformations in terms of the cohomology.