Steenrod operations on the negative cyclic homology of the shc-cochain algebras (Q1026020)

The Steenrod operations were first constructed as the cohomology operations on the singular cohomology of spaces with coefficients in the prime field \(\mathbb F_p\) for any prime \(p\). Since then many authors have extended the action to the cohomology of various algebraic objects. In the paper under review, the author shows that the Steenrod operations act naturally on the negative cyclic homology of a differential graded algebra \(A\) satisfying some extra conditions. More precisely, let \(((A,d_A),\mu_A,\kappa_A)\) be a \(\pi\)-\(shc\) cochain algebra as defined by Ndombol and Thomas. Then it is proved that the negative cyclic homology of a differential graded \(\pi\)-\(shc\) algebra \(A\) with coefficients in \(A\), \(HC_*^-(A)\), has algebraic Steenrod operations. Moreover, it is proved that the Jones isomorphism \(HC_*^-(C^*(X,\mathbb F_p))\to H^*_{S^1}(LX;\mathbb F_p)\) preserves the Steenrod operations, where \(X\) is a 1-connected space, \(LX\) is the free loop space of \(X\), and \(H^*_{S^1}(LX;\mathbb F_p)\) is the \(S^1\)-equivariant cohomology of \(LX\).