Hochschild homology of structured algebras

Abstract

We give a general method for constructing explicit and natural operations on the Hochschild complex of algebras over any PROP with $A_{\infty }$--multiplication---we think of such algebras as $A_{\infty }$--algebras "with extra structure". As applications, we obtain an integral version of the Costello-Kontsevich-Soibelman moduli space action on the Hochschild complex of open TCFTs, the Tradler-Zeinalian action of Sullivan diagrams on the Hochschild complex of strict Frobenius algebras, and give applications to string topology in characteristic zero. Our main tool is a generalization of the Hochschild complex.

arXiv commentSubstantial revision in sections 2 (graph models) and 6 (the examples). Introduction revised