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Derived string topology and the Eilenberg-Moore spectral sequence

Algebraic Topology 2013-04-26 v2

Abstract

Let MM be any simply-connected Gorenstein space over any field. F\'elix and Thomas have extended to simply-connected Gorenstein spaces, the loop (co)products of Chas and Sullivan on the homology of the free loop space H(LM)H_*(LM). We describe these loop (co)products in terms of the torsion and extension functors by developing string topology in appropriate derived categories. As a consequence, we show that the Eilenberg-Moore spectral sequence converging to the loop homology of a Gorenstein space admits a multiplication and a comultiplication with shifted degree which are compatible with the loop product and the loop coproduct of its target, respectively. We also define a generalized cup product on the Hochschild cohomology HH(A,A)HH^*(A,A^\vee) of a commutative Gorenstein algebra AA and show that over Q\mathbb{Q}, HH(APL(M),APL(M))HH^*(A_{PL}(M),A_{PL}(M)^\vee) is isomorphic as algebras to H(LM)H_*(LM). Thus, when MM is a Poincar\'e duality space, we recover the isomorphism of algebras H(LM;Q)HH(APL(M),APL(M))\mathbb{H}_*(LM;\mathbb{Q})^\cong HH^*(A_{PL}(M),A_{PL}(M)) of F\'elix and Thomas.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1211.6833,
  title  = {Derived string topology and the Eilenberg-Moore spectral sequence},
  author = {Katsuhiko Kuribayashi and Luc Menichi and Takahito Naito},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1211.6833},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

40 pages, this version is one of two preprints divided from the first version, an appendix on shriek maps is revised

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