On the First Hochschild Cohomology of Cocommutative Hopf Algebras of Finite Representation Type

Abstract

Abstract Let $\mathscr{B}_0({\mathcal{G}})\subseteq k\,{\mathcal{G}}$ be the principal block algebra of the group algebra $k\,{\mathcal{G}}$ of an infinitesimal group scheme ${\mathcal{G}}$ over an algebraically closed field $k$ of characteristic ${\operatorname{char}}(k)=:p\geq 3$. We calculate the restricted Lie algebra structure of the first Hochschild cohomology ${\mathcal{L}}:={\operatorname{H}}^1(\mathscr{B}_0({\mathcal{G}}),\mathscr{B}_0({\mathcal{G}}))$ whenever $\mathscr{B}_0({\mathcal{G}})$ has finite representation type. As a consequence, we prove that the complexity of the trivial ${\mathcal{G}}$-module $k$ coincides with the maximal toral rank of ${\mathcal{L}}$.