A Batalin-Vilkovisky algebra structure on the Hochschild cohomology of truncated polynomials (Q387203)

The central result of the paper is the computation of the BV algebra and the Gerstenhaber structure on the Hochschild cohomology \(H\!H^*(A)\) when \(A = \mathbb Z[x]/x^{n+1}\) and \(| x| = 2\). As a consequence, using the Menichi result on the loop structure of \(\mathbb H_*(LS^2;\mathbb Z)\), Tian Yang shows that as BV-algebras, \(\mathbb H_*(LS^2;\mathbb Z)\) and \(H\!H^*(C^*(S^2);\mathbb Z)\) are not isomorphic, but the induced Gerstenhaber structures are. Over the rationals, the computations given by Yang give a direct description of the BV-structure on the rational loop homology of a projective space.