ABSTRACT
Algebraic deformations of modules over a ring are considered. The resulting theory closely resembles Gerstenhaber's deformation theory of associative algebras.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
The author thanks the referee for reading an earlier version of this article and for pointing out the relationships between the results here and those in the literature, especially Gerstenhaber and Schack (Citation1985 Citation1988a Citationb) and Nijenhuis (Citation1968).
Notes
# Communicated by B. Huisgen-Zimmermann.