String homology of spheres and projective spaces (Q2464754)

The author computes the string homology of spheres and projective spaces at the prime \(2\). This space being formal he plays with the cohomology and introduces a cyclic Frobenius cohomology; a homotopy version of this cyclic homology is necessary because even the singular chains on \(S^2\) are not formal as a Frobenius algebra. He studies a spectral sequence that computes the \(S^1\)-equivariant homology of the free loop space \(LM\) of a manifold \(M\) (the string homology of \(M\)). Using it and knowledge of the BV operations on the Hochschild cohomology \(HH^*(H^*(M), H^*(M))\), he computes the (mod 2) string homology of \(M\) when \(M\) is a sphere or a projective space.