TITLE: "Spec" of graded rings?
QUESTION [14 upvotes]: From the discussion here, it seems that general Hochschild cohomology classes correspond to deformations where the deformation parameter can have nonzero degree.
So I have some naive and maybe stupid questions:
How can I interpret this geometrically? What is the "base space" of the deformation? What kind of object is it?
In other words, what is the "Spec" of a graded ring or a graded algebra (e.g. $k[t]$ or $k[[t]]$ or $k[t]/(t^n)$ with the variable $t$ having some nonzero degree)?
(..... maybe what I'm really asking is: Is there a theory of "schemes" where the "affine schemes" correspond to graded commutative rings rather than commutative rings? .....)

REPLY [2 votes]: maybe these notes by Vezzosi can be helpful for some
http://www.dma.unifi.it/~vezzosi/papers/derivedintctgtcplx.pdf