A proof of a cyclic version of Deligne's conjecture via cacti (Q1000609)

The author proves the following result which had been conjectured by \textit{D. Tamarkin} and \textit{B. Tsygan} [Methods Funct. Anal. Topol. 6, No. 2, 85--100 (2000; Zbl 0965.58010)]: There is a chain model for the framed little discs operad which acts naturally on the normalized Hochschild cochains of a finite-dimensional unital associative algebra \(A\) with a non-degenerate, symmetric, invariant bi-linear pairing. Under some restrictions on coefficients this can be applied to the situation of string topology on a 1-connected closed manifold.