Representation homology of topological spaces

DOI10.1093/IMRN/RNAA023zbMATH Open1494.57050arXiv1703.03505OpenAlexW3009576237MaRDI QIDQ5068508FDOQ5068508

Authors: Wai-Kit Yeung, Yuri Berest, Ajay Ramadoss 

Publication date: 6 April 2022

Published in: IMRN. International Mathematics Research Notices (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper, we introduce and study representation homology of topological spaces, which is a natural homological extension of representation varieties of fundamental groups. We give an elementary construction of representation homology parallel to the Loday-Pirashvili construction of higher Hochschild homology; in fact, we establish a direct geometric relation between the two theories by proving that the representation homology of the suspension of a (pointed connected) space is isomorphic to its higher Hochschild homology. We also construct some natural maps and spectral sequences relating representation homology to other homology theories associated with spaces (such as Pontryagin algebras, $S^1$-equivariant homology of the free loop space and stable homology of automorphism groups of f.g. free groups). We compute representation homology explicitly (in terms of known invariants) in a number of interesting cases, including spheres, suspensions, complex projective spaces, Riemann surfaces and some 3-dimensional manifolds, such as link complements in $R^3$ and the lens spaces $L(p,q)$. In the case of link complements, we identify the representation homology in terms of ordinary Hochschild homology, which gives a new algebraic invariant of links in $R^3$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.03505

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zbMATH Keywords

representation varietiesloop spaceshigher Hochschild homology

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Algebraic topology on manifolds and differential topology (57R19) Knot theory (57K10)

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