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A combinatorial approach to Kontsevich's Swiss cheese conjecture

Algebraic Topology 2025-12-24 v1

Abstract

From a coloured operad P\mathcal{P} and a P\mathcal{P}-algebra AA, we construct a new operad SC(P)\mathrm{SC}(\mathcal{P}) and a Hochschild object Hoch(A)\mathrm{Hoch}(A) together with an SC(P)\mathrm{SC}(\mathcal{P})-action on the pair (Hoch(A),A)(\mathrm{Hoch}(A),A). We prove that if P\mathcal{P} is the little nn-disks operad, then SC(P)\mathrm{SC}(\mathcal{P}) is equivalent to the Swiss cheese operad SCn\mathcal{SC}_n. This gives us a weak version of Kontsevich's Swiss cheese conjecture (without the universal property). We apply our result to prove the existence of an En+1E_{n+1}-action on the Hochschild-Pirashvili cochain of order nn of a commutative algebra.

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@article{arxiv.2512.20167,
  title  = {A combinatorial approach to Kontsevich's Swiss cheese conjecture},
  author = {Florian De Leger},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.20167},
  year   = {2025}
}