Homotopy coherent mapping class group actions and excision for Hochschild complexes of modular categories (Q2039568)

The authors obtain an extension of the usual Hochschild chain complex of a modular category \(\mathcal{C}\) over an algebraically closed field \(k\) as follows. They show that there is a sequence \((M_g)_{g\geq 0}\) of \(\mathcal{C}\)-bimodules such that the Hochschild chain complex \(CH(\mathcal{C}; M_g)\) of \(\mathcal{C}\) with coefficients in \(M_g\) has a homotopy coherent projective action of the mapping class group of the surface of genus \(g + 1\). The usual Hochschild chain complex of \(\mathcal{C}\) is \(CH(C; M_0)\).