String topology of classifying spaces

Details String topology of classifying spaces String topology of classifying spaces

2007-12-31

arxiv.org/abs/0801.0174v3

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Algebraic Topology

53 pages. Section 3 on Props and fields theories rewritten. Section 4 expanded in new sections 4, 5, 6 and 7, to fix orientati

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Let $G$ be a finite group or a compact connected Lie group and let $BG$ be its classifying space. Let $\mathcal{L}BG:=map(S^1,BG)$ 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 $H_*(\mathcal LBG)$ of this loop space. We prove that when taken with coefficients in a field the homology of $\mathcal LBG$ is a homological conformal field theory. As a byproduct of our main theorem, we get a Batalin-Vilkovisky algebra structure on the cohomology $H^*(\mathcal LBG)$. 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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