String topology for spheres

arXivmath/0609304MaRDI QIDQ6477834FDOQ6477834

Authors: Luc Menichi, Gerald Gaudens 

Publication date: 11 September 2006

Abstract: Let $M$ be a compact oriented $d$-dimensional smooth manifold. Chas and Sullivan have defined a structure of Batalin-Vilkovisky algebra on $mathbb{H}_{\ast }(LM)$. Extending work of Cohen, Jones and Yan, we compute this Batalin-Vilkovisky algebra structure when $M$ is a sphere $S^d$, $dgeq1$. In particular, we show that $mathbb{H}_{\ast }(L{S}^2;mathbb{F}_2)$ and the Hochschild cohomology $H{H}^{\ast }(H^{\ast }(S^2);H^{\ast }(S^2))$ are surprisingly not isomorphic as Batalin-Vilkovisky algebras, although we prove that, as expected, the underlying Gerstenhaber algebras are isomorphic. The proof requires the knowledge of the Batalin-Vilkovisky algebra $H_{\ast }(Omeg{a}^2{S}^3;mathbb{F}_2)$ that we compute in the Appendix.

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