String homology of spheres and projective spaces

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Abstract: We study a spectral sequence that computes the (mod 2) 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 string topology operations on the homology of LM, we compute the string homology of M when M is a sphere or a projective space.


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.




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