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arxiv: 0710.1445 · v2 · submitted 2007-10-07 · 🧮 math.AT · math.QA

String topology prospectra and Hochschild cohomology

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We study string topology for classifying spaces of connected compact Lie groups, drawing connections with Hochschild cohomology and equivariant homotopy theory. First, for a compact Lie group $G$, we show that the string topology prospectrum $LBG^{-TBG}$ is equivalent to the homotopy fixed-point prospectrum for the conjugation action of $G$ on itself, $G^{hG}$. Dually, we identify $LBG^{-ad}$ with the homotopy orbit spectrum $(DG)_{hG}$, and study ring and co-ring structures on these spectra. Finally, we show that in homology, these products may be identified with the Gerstenhaber cup product in the Hochschild cohomology of $C^*(BG)$ and $C_*(G)$, respectively. These, in turn, are isomorphic via Koszul duality.

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