Eight flavors of cyclic homology (Q2038542)

Cyclic homology is related to the homology of loop spaces. The goal of the present article is to provide a systematic study of the different versions of cyclic homology and their relation to loop space homology via Chen's iterated integrals. The natural setting is that of mixed complexes, introduced by \textit{C. Kassel} [J. Algebra 107, 195--216 (1987; Zbl 0617.16015)] and also by Getzler, Jones, and Petrack [\textit{E. Getzler} et al., Topology 30, No. 3, 339--371 (1991; Zbl 0729.58004)], under the name dg-\(\land\)-module. For a mixed complex \((C, \delta, D)\), the map \(\delta_u = \delta + uD\) defines a differential of degree 1 on the space \(C[[u,u^{-1}]]\) of formal power series in a degree 2 variable \(u\) and its inverse. This complex has five subcomplexes \(C[[u,u^{-1}], C[u,u^{-1}]], C[u,u^{-1}], C[[u]]\) and \(C[u]\), corresponding to power series that are polynomial in \(u^{-1}\), and so on, and two quotient complexes \(C[[u^{-1}]] = C[[u,u^{-1}]]/uC[[u]]\) and \(C[u^{-1}] = C[u,u^{-1}]/uC[u]\). These give rise to eight versions of cyclic homology that are in general all different, and they are all invariant under homotopy equivalences of mixed complexes. Many examples illustrate the various results proved here.