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    Centres, trace functors, and cyclic cohomology

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    We study the biclosedness of the monoidal categories of modules and comodules over a (left or right) Hopf algebroid, along with the bimodule category centres of the respective opposite categories and a corresponding categorical equivalence to anti Yetter-Drinfel'd contramodules and anti Yetter-Drinfel'd modules, respectively. This is directly connected to the existence of a trace functor on the monoidal categories of modules and comodules in question, which in turn allows to recover (or define) cyclic operators enabling cyclic cohomology.Comment: 41 pages; v2: added a subsection which better elucidates how trace functors emerge in biclosed categories; various minor improvements. To appear in Comm. Contemp. Mat

    A noncommutative calculus on the cyclic dual of Ext

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    We show that if the cochain complex computing Ext groups (in the category of modules over Hopf algebroids) admits a cocyclic structure, then the noncommutative Cartan calculus structure on Tor over Ext dualises in a cyclic sense to a calculus on Coext over Cotor. More precisely, the cyclic duals of the chain resp. cochain spaces computing the two classical derived functors lead to complexes that compute the more exotic ones, giving a cyclic opposite module over an operad with multiplication that induce operations such as a Lie derivative, a cap product (or contraction), and a (cyclic) differential, along with higher homotopy operators defining a noncommutative Cartan calculus up to homotopy. In particular, this allows to recover the classical Cartan calculus from differential geometry or the Chevalley-Eilenberg calculus for Lie(-Rinehart) algebras without any finiteness conditions or the use of topological tensor products

    Gerstenhaber and Batalin-Vilkovisky Structures on Modules over Operads

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    In this article, we show under what additional ingredients a comp (or opposite) module over an operad with multiplication can be given the structure of a cyclic k-module and how the underlying simplicial homology gives rise to a Batalin–Vilkovisky module over the cohomology of the operad. In particular, one obtains a generalized Lie derivative and a generalized (cyclic) cap product that obey a Cartan–Rinehart homotopy formula, and hence yield the structure of a noncommutative differential calculus in the sense of Nest, Tamarkin, Tsygan, and others. Examples include the calculi known for the Hochschild theory of associative algebras, for Poisson structures, but above all the calculus for general left Hopf algebroids with respect to general coefficients (in which the classical calculus of vector fields and differential forms is contained)

    Duality and products in algebraic (co)homology theories

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    The origin and interplay of products and dualities in algebraic (co)homology theories is ascribed to a ×A-Hopf algebra structure on the relevant universal enveloping algebra. This provides a unified treatment for example of results by Van den Bergh about Hochschild (co)homology and by Huebschmann about Lie–Rinehart (co)homology

    Cyclic homology arising from adjunctions

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    Cyclic Gerstenhaber-Schack cohomology

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    We show that the diagonal complex computing the Gerstenhaber-Schack cohomology of a bialgebra (that is, the cohomology theory governing bialgebra deformations) can be given the structure of an operad with multiplication if the bialgebra is a (not necessarily finite dimensional) Hopf algebra with invertible antipode; if the antipode is involutive, the operad is even cyclic. Therefore, the Gerstenhaber-Schack cohomology of any such Hopf algebra carries a Gerstenhaber resp. Batalin-Vilkoviski ̆ı algebra structure; in particular, one obtains a cup product and a cyclic boundary B that generate the Gerstenhaber bracket, and that allows to define cyclic Gerstenhaber-Schack cohomology. In case the Hopf algebra in question is finite dimensional, the Gerstenhaber bracket turns out to be zero in cohomology and hence the interesting structure is not given by this e2-algebra structure but rather by the resulting e3-algebra structure, which is expressed in terms of the cup product and B

    Batalin-Vilkovisky structures on Ext and Tor

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    This article studies the algebraic structure of homology theories defined by a left Hopf algebroid U over a possibly noncommutative base algebra A, such as for example Hochschild, Lie algebroid (in particular Lie algebra and Poisson), or group and etale groupoid (co)homology. Explicit formulae for the canonical Gerstenhaber algebra structure on Ext_U(A,A) are given. The main technical result constructs a Lie derivative satisfying a generalised Cartan-Rinehart homotopy formula whose essence is that Tor^U(M,A) becomes for suitable right U-modules M a Batalin-Vilkovisky module over Ext_U(A,A), or in the words of Nest, Tamarkin, Tsygan and others, that Ext_U(A,A) and Tor^U(M,A) form a differential calculus. As an illustration, we show how the well-known operators from differential geometry in the classical Cartan homotopy formula can be obtained. Another application consists in generalising Ginzburg's result that the cohomology ring of a Calabi-Yau algebra is a Batalin-Vilkovisky algebra to twisted Calabi-Yau algebras

    Cyclic structures in algebraic cohomology theories

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    This note discusses the cyclic cohomology of a left Hopf algebroid (×A\times_A-Hopf algebra) with coefficients in a right module-left comodule, defined using a straightforward generalisation of the original operators given by Connes and Moscovici for Hopf algebras. Lie-Rinehart homology is a special case of this theory. A generalisation of cyclic duality that makes sense for arbitrary para-cyclic objects yields a dual homology theory. The twisted cyclic homology of an associative algebra provides an example of this dual theory that uses coefficients that are not necessarily stable anti Yetter-Drinfel'd modules

    Phase space reduction of star products on cotangent bundles

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    In this paper we construct star products on Marsden-Weinstein reduced spaces in case both the original phase space and the reduced phase space are (symplectomorphic to) cotangent bundles. Under the assumption that the original cotangent bundle T∗Q carries a symplectic structure of form ωB0 = ω0 +π∗B0 with B0 a closed two-form on Q, is equipped by the cotangent lift of a proper and free Lie group action on Q and by an invariant star product that admits a G-equivariant quantum momentum map, we show that the reduced phase space inherits from T∗Q a star product. Moreover, we provide a concrete description of the resulting star product in terms of the initial star product on T∗Q and prove that our reduction scheme is independent of the characteristic class of the initial star product. Unlike other existing reduction schemes we are thus able to reduce not only strongly invariant star products. Furthermore in this article, we establish a relation between the characteristic class of the original star product and the characteristic class of the reduced star product and provide a classification up to G-equivalence of those star products on (T∗Q, ωB0 ), which are invariant with respect to a lifted Lie group action. Finally, we investigate the question under which circumstances ‘quantization commutes with reduction’ and show that in our examples non-trivial restrictions arise

    Higher brackets on cyclic and negative cyclic (co)homology

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    The purpose of this article is to embed the string topology bracket developed by Chas– Sullivan and Menichi on negative cyclic cohomology groups as well as the dual bracket found by de Thanhoffer de Völcsey–Van den Bergh on negative cyclic homology groups into the global picture of a noncommutative differential (or Cartan) calculus up to homotopy on the (co)cyclic bicomplex in general, in case a certain Poincaré duality is given. For negative cyclic cohomology, this in particular leads to a Batalin–Vilkoviski ̆ı (BV) algebra structure on the underlying Hochschild cohomology. In the special case in which this BV bracket vanishes, one obtains an e3-algebra structure on Hochschild cohomology. The results are given in the general and unifying setting of (opposite) cyclic modules over (cyclic) operads
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