%0 Journal Article %T Cohomological constraint to deformations of compact Kaehler manifolds %A Marco Manetti %J Mathematics %D 2001 %I arXiv %X We prove that for every compact K\"ahler manifold $X$ there exists an $L$-infinity morphism, lifting the usual cup product in cohomology, from the Kodaira-Spencer differential graded Lie algebra to the suspension of the space of linear endomorphisms of the singular cohomology of $X$. As a consequence we get an algebraic proof of the principle ``obstructions to deformations of compact Kaehler manifolds annihilate ambient cohomology''. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0105175v2