Convolution algebras and the deformation theory of infinity-morphisms

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Abstract: Given a coalgebra C over a cooperad, and an algebra A over an operad, it is often possible to define a natural homotopy Lie algebra structure on hom(C,A), the space of linear maps between them, called the convolution algebra of C and A. In the present article, we use convolution algebras to define the deformation complex for infinity-morphisms of algebras over operads and coalgebras over cooperads. We also complete the study of the compatibility between convolution algebras and infinity-morphisms of algebras and coalgebras. We prove that the convolution algebra bifunctor can be extended to a bifunctor that accepts infinity-morphisms in both slots and which is well defined up to homotopy, and we generalize and take a new point of view on some other already known results. This paper concludes a series of works by the two authors dealing with the investigation of convolution algebras.


If \(\mathcal P\) is an operad and \(\mathcal C\) a cooperad and \(\alpha:\mathcal C\longrightarrow \mathcal P\) an operadic twisting, then of \(A\) an algebra on \(\mathcal P\) and \(C\) a coalgebra on \(\mathcal C\), the chain complex of linear maps from \(C\) to \(A\) is canonically a homotopy Lie algebra (or \(L_\infty\)-algebra), denoted by \(\mathrm{Hom}^\alpha(C,A)\). The first main result of this paper is the following: for any pair of algebras on \(\mathcal P\) and any pair of conilpotent coalgebras on \(\mathcal C\), a \(L_\infty\)-algebra is defined, whose Maurer-Cartan elements are in natural bijection with the \(\infty\)-morphisms between the algebras, respectively the coalgebras. Moreover, the gauge equivalence for Maurer-Cartan elements corresponds to the homotopy for morphisms. The second main result is the following: if \(\alpha\) is Koszul, the bifunctor \(\mathrm{Hom}^\alpha(-,-)\) extends to \(\infty\)-morphisms in both slots, if one accepts to work up to homotopy.











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