String topology of classifying spaces

DOI10.1515/CRELLE.2011.140MaRDI QIDQ2910993zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors David Chataur, Luc Menichi

Publication date 12 September 2012

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

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

zbMATH Keywords

classifying spaceconformal field theoryHochschild cohomologystring topology

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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.

Review text

A new and very rich algebraic structure has been defined by Chas and Sullivan on the homology of the free loop space of a compact closed oriented manifold. This structure is known under the generic term of string topology and the nicest definition uses 2-dimensional topological field theories.NEWLINENEWLINEIn this paper Chataur and Menichi extend this theory to the classifying spaces of finite groups and compact Lie groups. More precisely they consider groups \(G\) that are either discrete finite groups or connected topological groups whose singular homologies with coefficients in a field are finite dimensional. For such a group \(G\) they prove that the free loop space on the classifying space of \(G\), \(LBG\), is a homological conformal field theory. They deduce that, with coefficients in a principal ideal domain \(\Bbbk\), the cohomology \(H^*(LBG,\Bbbk)\) is a Batalin-Vilkovisky algebra. When \(G\) is a compact Lie group of dimension \(d\), they also construct an isomorphism between \(H^{*+d}(LBG)\) and the Hochschild cohomology \(H\!H^*(S_*(G), S_*(G))\) where \(S_*(G)\) denotes the singular chains of \(G\).

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