String topology of classifying spaces

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Abstract: Let G be a finite group or a compact connected Lie group and let BG be its classifying space. Let mathcalLBG:=map(S1,BG) be the free loop space of BG i.e. the space of continuous maps from the circle S1 to BG. The purpose of this paper is to study the singular homology H∗(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∗(mathcalLBG). We also prove an algebraic version of this result by showing that the Hochschild cohomology HH∗(S∗(G),S∗(G)) of the singular chains of G is a Batalin-Vilkovisky algebra.




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