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On algebraic structures of the Hochschild complex

Algebraic Topology 2015-07-17 v3 Algebraic Geometry Quantum Algebra

Abstract

We first review various known algebraic structures on the Hochschild (co)homology of a differential graded algebras under weak Poincar{\'e} duality hypothesis, such as Calabi-Yau algebras, derived Poincar{\'e} duality algebras and closed Frobenius algebras. This includes a BV-algebra structure on HH(A,A)HH^*(A,A^\vee) or HH(A,A)HH^*(A,A), which in the latter case is an extension of the natural Gerstenhaber structure on HH(A,A)HH^*(A,A). As an example, after proving that the chain complex of the Moore loop space of a manifold MM is a CY-algebra and using Burghelea-Fiedorowicz-Goodwillie theorem we obtain a BV-structure on the homology of the free space. In Sections 6 we prove that these BV/coBVstructures can be indeed defined for the Hochschild homology of a symmetric open Frobenius DG-algebras. In particular we prove that the Hochschild homology and cohomology of a symmetric open Frobenius algebra is a BV and coBV-algebra. In Section 7 we exhibit a BV structure on the shifted relative Hochschild homology of a symmetric commutative Frobenius algebra. The existence of a BV-structure on the relative Hochschild homology was expected in the light of Chas-Sullivan and Goresky-Hingston results for free loop spaces. In Section 8 we present an action of Sullivan diagrams on the Hochschild (co)chain complex of a closed Frobenius DG-algebra. This recovers Tradler-Zeinalian \cite{TZ} result for closed Froebenius algebras using the isomorphism C(A,A)C(A,A)C^*(A ,A) \simeq C^*(A,A^\vee).

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@article{arxiv.1302.6534,
  title  = {On algebraic structures of the Hochschild complex},
  author = {Hossein Abbaspour},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1302.6534},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

This is the final version. Many improvements and corrections have been made.To appear in Free Loop Spaces in Geometry and Topology, IRMA Lectures in Mathematicsand Theoretical Physics, to be published by EMS-PH

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