String topology of classifying spaces

DOI10.1515/CRELLE.2011.140zbMATH Open1253.55008arXiv0801.0174OpenAlexW2963235379MaRDI QIDQ2910993FDOQ2910993

Authors: David Chataur, Luc Menichi 

Publication date: 12 September 2012

Published in: Journal für die Reine und Angewandte Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Let $G$ be a finite group or a compact connected Lie group and let $BG$ be its classifying space. Let $mathcalLBG:=map(S^1,BG)$ be the free loop space of $BG$ i.e. the space of continuous maps from the circle $S^1$ to $BG$. The purpose of this paper is to study the singular homology $H_{\ast }(mathcalLBG)$ of this loop space. We prove that when taken with coefficients in a field the homology of $mathcalLBG$ is a homological conformal field theory. As a byproduct of our main theorem, we get a Batalin-Vilkovisky algebra structure on the cohomology $H^{\ast }(mathcalLBG)$. We also prove an algebraic version of this result by showing that the Hochschild cohomology $H{H}^{\ast }(S_{\ast }(G),S_{\ast }(G))$ of the singular chains of $G$ is a Batalin-Vilkovisky algebra.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0801.0174

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zbMATH Keywords

classifying spaceconformal field theoryHochschild cohomologystring topology

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Loop spaces (55P35) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Loop space machines and operads in algebraic topology (55P48) String topology (55P50)

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