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TY - JOUR
T1 - Involutive A-infinity algebras and dihedral cohomology
AU - Braun, Christopher
N1 - Date of Acceptance: 05/04/2013 The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40062-013-0030-y
PY - 2014/10
Y1 - 2014/10
N2 - We define and study the cohomology theories associated to A-infinity algebras and cyclic A-infinity algebras equipped with an involution, generalising dihedral cohomology to the A-infinity context. Such algebras arise, for example, as unoriented versions of topological conformal field theories. It is well known that Hochschild cohomology and cyclic cohomology govern, in a precise sense, the deformation theory of A-infinity algebras and cyclic A-infinity algebras and we give analogous results for the deformation theory in the presence of an involution. We also briefly discuss generalisations of these constructions and results to homotopy algebras over Koszul operads, such as L-infinity algebras or C-infinity algebras equipped with an involution.
AB - We define and study the cohomology theories associated to A-infinity algebras and cyclic A-infinity algebras equipped with an involution, generalising dihedral cohomology to the A-infinity context. Such algebras arise, for example, as unoriented versions of topological conformal field theories. It is well known that Hochschild cohomology and cyclic cohomology govern, in a precise sense, the deformation theory of A-infinity algebras and cyclic A-infinity algebras and we give analogous results for the deformation theory in the presence of an involution. We also briefly discuss generalisations of these constructions and results to homotopy algebras over Koszul operads, such as L-infinity algebras or C-infinity algebras equipped with an involution.
KW - A ∞ -algebras
KW - Involution
KW - Dihedral cohomology
KW - Deformation theory
KW - Operads
U2 - 10.1007/s40062-013-0030-y
DO - 10.1007/s40062-013-0030-y
M3 - Journal article
VL - 9
SP - 317
EP - 337
JO - Journal of Homotopy and Related Structures
JF - Journal of Homotopy and Related Structures
SN - 2193-8407
IS - 2
ER -