Formality of the homotopy calculus algebra of Hochschild (co)chains

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  • Title: Formality of the homotopy calculus algebra of Hochschild (co)chains
  • ArXiv ID: 0807.5117
  • Date: 2008-08-01
  • Authors: Researchers from original ArXiv paper

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The Kontsevich-Soibelman solution of the cyclic version of Deligne's conjecture and the formality of the operad of little discs on a cylinder provide us with a natural homotopy calculus structure on the pair (C^*(A), C_*(A)) ``Hochschild cochains + Hochschild chains'' of an associative algebra A. We show that for an arbitrary smooth algebraic variety X with the structure sheaf O_X the sheaf (C^*(O_X), C_*(O_X)) of homotopy calculi is formal. This result was announced in paper [29] by the second and the third author.

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The Kontsevich-Soibelman solution of the cyclic version of Deligne’s conjecture and the formality of the operad of little discs on a cylinder provide us with a natural homotopy calculus structure on the pair (C^(A), C_(A)) ``Hochschild cochains + Hochschild chains’’ of an associative algebra A. We show that for an arbitrary smooth algebraic variety X with the structure sheaf O_X the sheaf (C^(O_X), C_(O_X)) of homotopy calculi is formal. This result was announced in paper [29] by the second and the third author.

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arXiv:0807.5117v1 [math.KT] 31 Jul 2008 Formality of the homotopy calculus algebra of Hochschild (co)chains Vasiliy Dolgushev, Dmitry Tamarkin, and Boris Tsygan To Mikhail Olshanetsky on the occasion of his 70th birthday. Abstract The Kontsevich-Soibelman solution of the cyclic version of Deligne’s conjecture and the formality of the operad of little discs on a cylinder provide us with a natural homo- topy calculus structure on the pair (C•(A), C•(A)) “Hochschild cochains + Hochschild chains” of an associative algebra A. We show that for an arbitrary smooth algebraic variety X over a field K of characteristic zero the sheaf (C•(OX), C•(OX)) of homotopy calculi is formal. This result was announced in paper [29] by the second and the third author. Contents 1 Introduction 2 2 Preliminaries 3 2.1 (Co)operads and (co)algebras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2.2 Hochschild (co)chain complexes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 3 The operads Ho (calc) , Ho (e2) , and Ho (Lie+ δ ) 11 3.1 Description of the operads Ho (calc) and Ho (e2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 3.2 Description of the operad Ho (Lie+ δ ) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 4 The Kontsevich-Soibelman operad and the operad of little discs on a cylin- der 19 4.1 The Kontsevich-Soibelman operad KS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 4.2 The operad of little discs on a cylinder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 4.3 Required results from [23] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 4.4 A useful property of the operad KS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 5 The homotopy calculus on the pair (C• norm(A), Cnorm • (A)) . 37 6 Formality theorem 46 6.1 Enveloping algebra of a Gerstenhaber algebra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 6.2 Sheaves of Hochschild (co)chains on an algebraic variety . . . . . . . . . . . 48 6.3 Morita equivalence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 6.4 Proof of Theorem 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 1 7 Applications and generalizations 62 1 Introduction The standard Cartan calculus on polyvector fields and exterior forms can be naturally ex- tended to the Hochschild cohomology HH•(A, A) and the Hochschild homology HH•(A, A) of an arbitrary associative algebra A [11], [24]. This calculus is induced by simple opera- tions on Hochschild (co)chains, and the identities of this algebraic structure hold for these operations up to homotopy. The Kontsevich-Soibelman proof of the cyclic version of Deligne’s conjecture [23] and the formality of the operad of little discs on a cylinder1 imply that this nice collection of the operations on the pair (C• norm(A), Cnorm • (A)) “(normalized) Hochschild cochains + (normalized) Hochschild chains” can be extended to an ∞- or homotopy calculus structure. This homotopy calculus structure on the pair (C• norm(A), Cnorm • (A)) is a natural general- ization of the homotopy Gerstenhaber algebra structure on the cochains C• norm(A) . In paper [13] we proved the formality of this homotopy Gerstenhaber algebra on C• norm(A) for an ar- bitrary regular commutative algebra A over a field K of characteristic zero. In this paper we extend this result to the homotopy calculus algebra on the pair (C• norm(A), Cnorm • (A)) . As well as in [13] we also consider the situation when the algebra A is replaced by the structure sheaf OX of a smooth algebraic variety X over the field K . More precisely, we con- sider the homotopy calculus algebra on the pair (C• norm(OX), Cnorm • (OX)) where C• norm(OX) and Cnorm • (OX) is, respectively, the sheaf of (normalized) Hochschild cochains and the sheaf of (normalized) Hochschild chains of OX . In this paper we show that the sheaf of homotopy calculi (C• norm(OX), Cnorm • (OX)) is formal. If A is an associative algebra (with unit), the pair (C• norm(A), Cnorm • (A)) is also equipped with an algebraic structure defined by a degree −1 Lie bracket on C• norm(A) , a degree −1 Lie module structure on Cnorm • (A) over C• norm(A) , and Connes’ operator on Cnorm • (A) which is compatible with the Lie module structure. In the paper we refer to such algebra structures as ΛLie+ δ -algebra. (See Definition 4.) In paper [31] the third author conjectured that if A is a regular commutative algebra then this ΛLie+ δ -algebra structure on (C• norm(A), Cnorm • (A)) is formal. This conjecture was proved in [33] (at least in the case R ⊂K) by Willwacher who used the constructions of B. Shoikhet [25] and the first author [12]. In general Ho(ΛLie+ δ )-part of the homotopy calculus structure on (C• norm(A), Cnorm • (A)) derived from [23] may not coincide with the ΛLie+ δ -algebra on the pair (C• norm(A), Cnorm • (A)) . However, we show that this homotopy calculus algebra on (C• norm(A), Cnorm • (A)) is quasi- isomorphic to another homotopy calculus algebra on (C• norm(A), Cnorm • (A)) whose Ho(ΛLie+ δ )- part is the ordinary ΛLie+ δ -a

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