Simplicial homology and Hochschild cohomology of Banach semilattice algebras

The ${\ell}^1$-convolution algebra of a semilattice is known to have trivial cohom ology in degrees 1,2 and 3 whenever the coefficient bimodule is symmetric. We ex tend this result to all cohomology groups of degree $\geq 1$ with symmetric coef ficients. Our techniques prove a stronger splitting result, namely that the spli tting can be made natural with respect to the underlying semilattice.