Abstract
The motivation of this paper is to construct a deformation theory of coderivations of coassociative coalgebras. We introduce a notion of a Coder pair, that is, a coassociative coalgebra with a coderivation. Then we define a proper corepresentation of a Coder pair and study the corresponding cohomology. Finally, we show that a Coder pair is rigid, provided that the second cohomology group is trivial and point out that a deformation of finite order is extensible to higher order deformations if the obstruction class, which is defined to be in the third cohomology group, is trivial.
Acknowledgments
The authors would like to thank the anonymous referee for his/her helpful comments. In particular, the interesting question in Remark 3.1 were raised by him/her.