CoHochschild homology of chain coalgebras. (Q1004462)

The authors introduce a co-Hochschild homology theory for chain coalgebras over a principal ideal domain, generalizing a construction by \textit{Y. Doi} [J. Math. Soc. Japan 33, 31-50 (1981; Zbl 0459.16007)]. The co-Hochschild complex is natural with respect to chain coalgebra morphisms up to homotopy. In particular this applies to the normalized chain complex of a reduced simplicial set, whose co-Hochschild complex turns out to be a homotopy-coassociative chain coalgebra. It should be noted that statements from this paper are needed in other recent papers of the first named author.