Moduli space actions on the Hochschild co-chains of a Frobenius algebra. II: Correlators (Q936171)

In the first paper of this series [J. Noncommut. Geom. 1, No.~3, 333--384 (2007; Zbl 1145.55008)], certain topological and cellular operads were introduced and interrelated on which actions on the Hochschild co-chains of a Frobenius algebra are developed in this second paper. The motivation for the existence of such actions lies in the structure of \(D\)-branes, string topology, and the solution of the Deligne conjecture. The main idea is given by operadic correlation functions which are defined for a vector space \(A\) and a choice of sum \(C\in A\otimes A\), \(C = \sum c^{(1)}\otimes c^{(2)}\) using the operations \[ \circ_i: \text{Hom}(A^{\otimes n+1}, k)\otimes \text{Hom}(A^{\otimes m+1},k) \to \text{Hom}(A^{\otimes n+m}, k) \] and given on \(\varphi \in \text{Hom}(A^{\otimes n+1}, k)\) and \(\psi \in \text{Hom}(A^{\otimes m+1}, k)\) by \[ \begin{multlined} \varphi\circ_i\psi (a_1\otimes \cdots \otimes a_{n+m})\\ = \sum \varphi(a_1\otimes \cdots \otimes a_{i-1} \otimes c^{(1)}\otimes a_{i+m} \otimes \cdots \otimes a_{n+m})\cdot \psi(c^{(2)}\otimes a_i \otimes \cdots \otimes a_{i+m-1}).\end{multlined} \] The operadic correlation functions for an operad \({\mathcal O}\) are given by \(Y_{n+1}: {\mathcal O}(n) \to \text{Hom}(A^{\otimes n+1}, k)\) with \(Y_{n+1}\) \(\Sigma_{n+1}\)-equivariant and for \(u\in {\mathcal O}(n)\) and \(v\in {\mathcal O}(m)\), \(Y_{n+m}(u\circ_i v) = Y_{n+1}(u)\circ_i Y_{m+1}(v)\). Examples abound in the author's menagerie of operads. The correlators for Hochschild co-chains of a Frobenius algebra are given in \S3 and they are shown to unify and extend the motivating examples.