Questions tagged [hochschild-homology]
For questions about Hochschild homology of associative algebras and related concepts.
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Book on Hochschild (co)homology
There is currently no treatise treating Hochschild (co)homology systematically. There is a chapter in Weibel's book, there's parts of Loday's and a few others...
What should be covered by such a ...
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intuition for hochschild homology
According to this post Intuition for group homology, I wonder what is the intuition for Hochschild homology.
The Hochschild homology is defined as the homology of this complex
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revisiting $THH(\mathbb{F}_p)$
Reading through Bhatt-Morrow-Scholze's "Topological Hochschild Homology and Integral p-adic Hodge Theory" I encountered the following statement.
We use only “formal” properties of THH throughout ...
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Hochschild (co)homology of Fukaya categories and (quantum) (co)homology
There is a conjecture of Kontsevich which states that Hochschild (co)homology of the Fukaya category of a compact symplectic manifold $X$ is the (co)homology of the manifold. (See page 18 of ...
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Categorification of Floer homology
Floer homology associates a vector space $HF^\ast(L_1,L_2)$ to any pair of Lagrangian submanifolds $L_1,L_2$ inside a symplectic manifold $X$. By a categorification of Floer homology, I mean a ...
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Is there an algebraic "derived mapping space" construction that encompasses both Hochschild homology and loop spaces of non-simply-connected spaces?
I'm looking for directions to the literature that might contain fairly explicit constructions that might be called (the algebra of functions on) the "derived mapping space" from a simplicial set to a ...
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Hochschild (co)homology of differential operators
I googled the title on the internet, and arrived at the following result
$$HH_k(D)\cong H_{DR}^{2n-k}(M).$$
Here $M$ is a smooth manifold of dimension $n$, and $D$ is the ring of differential ...
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Why is the Hochschild homology of k[t] just k[t] in degrees 0 and 1?
Background: the Hochschild homology of an associative algebra is the homology of the complex
$$ \ldots \longrightarrow A \otimes A \otimes A \longrightarrow A \otimes A \longrightarrow A$$
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Deligne's conjecture (the little discs operad one)
Deligne's conjecture states that the Hochschild cochain complex of an A-infinity algebra is an algebra over the operad of chains on the topological little discs operad.
Of course the conjecture has ...
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Relationship between Hochschild cohomology and Drinfeld centers
Let $HH_*(A,N)$ (or $HH^*(A,N)$) be the Hochschild homology (or cohomology) of an associative algebra $A$ with coefficients in an $A$-bimodule $N$.
I was reading nlab's entry on Hochschild cohomology ...
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Applications of topological chiral homology and factorization algebras (aka higher Hochschild cohomology)
I recently heard a talk about these topics and found them very interesting.
The talk was centered on the formal structure and didn't really focus on examples.
So my question is: what is your favorite ...
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How exactly is Hochschild homology a monad homology?
Many texts which praise the generality of the bar construction associated to a monad, say that Hochschild homology is an example of this.
What exactly is in this case the underlying endofunctor of ...
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Microlocalizing Hochschild homology
A recent paper of Ben-Zvi and Nadler gives a general formalism for understanding "dimensions" in sheaf theories. Without getting too far into details, amongst other things, this formalism allows us ...
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Definition of Hochschild (co)homology of a (dg or A-infinity) category
How do you define the Hochschild (co)homology of a dg category or an A-infinity category? I've only seen it defined when the category is equivalent to a category of modules over a dg algebra; then the ...
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When does Hochschild homology commute with infinite products?
Let $A$ be an associative algebra. Its zeroth Hochschild homology $\mathrm{HH}_0(A)$ is the cokernel of the linear map $A^{\wedge 2} \to A$, $a \wedge b \mapsto ab - ba$. I.e. you quotient the ...
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References for a certain generalization of Hochschild cohomology?
Let $C$ be an algebra. Let $E = C^{\otimes 2n}$ be the tensor product (over the ground field) of $2n$ copies of $C$. [EDIT: Or better, $E = C\otimes C^{op}\otimes C\otimes C^{op}\cdots\otimes C \...
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Geometric realization of Hochschild complex
Let $A$ be a commutative $\mathbb{C}$-algebra, and consider $C_{\bullet}(A,A)$ the simplicial Hochschild homology module of $A$ with respect to itself (i.e. $C_{n}(A,A)=A^{\otimes (n+1)}$). This is a ...
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Relation between Gerstenhaber bracket and Connes differential
Let $C$ be an arbitrary algebra (more generally, a linear 1-category). The following structures are well-known:
A degree-0 product on the Hochschild cohomology $HH^*(C)$
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HH^*(C) \otimes HH^*(C) \...
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Is there any relation between the simplicial $S^1$ and the Hochschild homology of a noncommutative algebras
Let $k$ be the base field and $A$ be a unital associative $k$-algebra. Let's review the Hochschild homology theory: we have the Hochschild chain comple $C_{\cdot}(A)$ where
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C_n(A):=A^{\otimes n+1}
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Measure the failure of colimit to commute with taking free loops (or Hochschild homology)?
For a space1 $X$, let $\mathcal{L}X = \mathrm{Maps}(S^1, X)$ be the free loop space.
Inclusion of constant loops gives a natural map $X \to \mathcal{L}X$. This is not a homotopy equivalence unless $X$...
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Higher traces in Hochschild cohomology
Let $A$ be an associative algebra over a field $k$. Let $\rho:A \rightarrow \mathrm{End}(M)$ a left module, finite dimensional over $k$. Then the map $a \mapsto \mathrm{tr}_M \rho(a)$ is a well ...
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String cobracket from TFT
Let $M$ be a closed oriented manifold. Chas and Sullivan (https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0212358) introduced a Lie bialgebra structure on $H_\bullet^{S^1}(LM, M)$, $S^1$-equivariant homology of the loop ...
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On cyclic homology of Ginzburg's DG algebra
Let $(Q,W)$ be a quiver with potential, and $D$ be Ginzburg's DG algebra associated to it (as explained in http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0612139 and other places), so that it is a 3-Calabi-Yau algebra. I ...
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Hochschild homology with coefficients in a certain bimodule
Let $A$ be a finite-dimensional $k$-algebra and $U$ and $V$ two finite-dimensional projective $A$-modules (maybe neither the finiteness nor projectivity has to play a role, but these requirements are ...
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A characterisation of symmetric algebras using Hochschild (co)homology
A finite dimensional (connected if needed) $K$-algebra $A$ over a field $K$ is called symmetric when $A \cong Hom_K(A,K)$ as $A$-bimodules. Symmetric algebras are Frobenius algebras and include for ...
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Does a morphism which induces an isomorphism between Hochschild homology also induce an isomorphism between cyclic homology?
In a 1998 paper by B. Keller, the author consider the following problem in Section 1.4: Let $k$ be a commutative ring and $X$ a scheme over $k$. We can consider the cyclic homology as well as the ...
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Hochschild homology of upper triangular matrix algebra?
Let $K$ be a field and $A$ the associative unital $K$-algebra of all $n\times n$ upper triangular matrices with entries in $K$. What is $\dim_K$ of its hochschild homology $HH_k(A;A)$?
Is there any ...
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How to compute the periodic cyclic homology of this algebra
Let $k=\mathbb{C}$ be the field of complex numbers. I consider the (DG) algebra $A:=k[x]/(x^2)$ such that $\deg(x)=-1$. My question is how to compute the periodic cyclic homology, Hochschild homology ...
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Algebraic models of non-simply connected spaces in string topology
I want to find some algebraic models relating string topology to Hochschild and cyclic homologies. If the space $X$ is simply-connected and we are working over rational numbers, we can use Sullivan ...
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What is $TP(\mathbb{Z}_p)$?
Let $TP$ be periodic topological cyclic homology. What is $\pi_* TP(\mathbb{Z}_p)$?
(i) I know that $\pi_* TP(\mathbb{F}_p) \cong \mathbb{Z}_p[v^{\pm 1}]$ with $v$ in degree $-2$ by IV.4.8 of Nikolaus-...
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Topological Hochschild homology and Hochschild homology of dg algebras
Topological Hochschild homology is a generalization of Hochschild homology from rings to $E_\infty$-ring spectra. On the other hand, there is a natural way to extend the notion of Hochschild homology ...
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Relationship between different definitions of the Hochschild homology
Throughout the literature, one can find many definitions of the Hochschild homology of various objects. However, the precise relationship between these definitions is not always so clear, at least to ...
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What is the negative cyclic homology of a smooth projective variety?
Let X be a smooth and projective variety. Hochschild homology and cohomology have a very simple definition in terms of Ext groups of the diagonal of X. The Hochschild-Kostant-Rosenberg (HKR) theorem ...
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Does anyone recognize this quiver-with-relations?
Below I describe an infinite (but locally finite) quiver with relations. My question is whether anyone recognizes it and can provide appropriate pointers to the literature. I'm mainly interested in ...
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An exact sequence involving THH
Disclaimer: I'm a relative beginner in this area. I'm trying to prove that if one has a commutative ring $R$ and a prime number $p$, then there is an exact sequence of the form
$$\DeclareMathOperator\...
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How do you prove that Hochschild cohomology is Morita invariant?
I am simply trying to show that $HH^\bullet(A)= HH^\bullet(M_r(A))$ for any matrix ring of $A$.
In Loday's book (Sect 1.5.6) the Morita invariance is explained as follows : it says that if $M$ is an ...
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Hochschild H^1 (R,M) = 0 vs. H_1 (R,M) = 0 where R is a ring and M is an (R,R)-bimodule
Let $k$ be a commutative ring (with unity). Let $R$ be a $k$-algebra (with unity, but not of necessity commutative).
Let $M$ be an $\left(R,R\right)$-bimodule where $k$ acts in the same way from the ...
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Why is Hochschild homology interesting if its cohomology groups are infinite-dimensional?
I am trying to understand Hochschild homology, in particular the Hochschild–Kostant–Rosenberg theorem. As far as I understand this result gives an isomorphism between the algebraic (Kähler) ...
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Definitions of Hochschild Cohomology $HH^{\bullet}(A)$
Let $A$ be an associative unital $k$-algebra, and let $M$ be a bimodule of $A$. The Hochschild cohomology of $A$ with coefficients in $M$ can be defined as
$$HH^{n}(A,\,M)=\mathrm{Ext}^{n}_{A^{e}}(A,\,...
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Hochschild homology of quiver algebras
Let $K$ be a field and $\Gamma$ a quiver (=multidigraph) and $K[\Gamma]$ its quiver algebra (free $K$-module on the set of all paths of length $\geq0$ where multiplication is concatenation if ...
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Is the exterior algebra intrinsically formal?
Following 4.6 and 4.7 of this paper by Seidel and Thomas, a graded algebra $A$ is called intrinsically formal if any two dgas with cohomology $A$ are quasi-isomorphic. There is a sufficient condition ...
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A mysterious quasi-isomorphism in Kashiwara-Schapira's proof of HKR
On p. 127 of Kashiwara-Schapira's paper "Deformation Quantization Modules", there is the following situation: $X$ is a smooth complex (quasi?)projective variety and $\delta\colon X\to X\times X$ is ...
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Confusion about topological Hochschild homology and $\mathbb{Z}_p$-topological Hochschild homology
Let $R$ be the ring of integers in a perfectoid field of mixed characteristic $p$. Is $\pi_*THH(R)$ (as defined in Bhatt--Morrow--Scholze) $p$-complete (as an abelian group)?
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A theory of higher limits of (1-)functors, after higher hochschild homology
$\newcommand{\Trans}{\mathrm{Trans}}\newcommand{\H}{\mathrm{H}}\newcommand{\HH}{\mathrm{HH}}\newcommand{\Hom}{\mathrm{Hom}}\newcommand{\Mod}{\mathrm{Mod}}$Recently I noticed that one may regard the co/...
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Explicit homotopy for Hochschild chains from natural isomorphism
Let $A,B$ be $k$-linear (possibly, dg-)categories, let $f,g:A\to B$ be two linear functors, and let $T:f\Rightarrow g$ be a natural isomorphism.
If one denotes by $C_\bullet(A,A)$ the standard ...
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$\mathrm{HH}$ and $\mathrm{HC}$ as two different Taylor expansions at the same point
Let us consider the functors from dg algebras to graded spaces given by Hochshcild homology and cyclic homology. Then it is well known that in degree $0$, both functors are given by $A\longmapsto A/[A,...
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Hochschild homology of a category of modules over an algebra
Suppose $A$ is an algebra over some field, say the complex numbers if that helps. Then we can consider the category $\mathbf{C}_A$ of finite-dimensional modules over $A$.
This category can be seen as ...
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Defining Hochschild homology of non-commutative DG-algebras with animated rings with a circle action
A cool construction of Hochschild homology (that I saw on B. Antieau's website here ) is the following:
Let $k$ be a commutative ring, then denote by $\mathfrak{a}\text{CAlg}_k$ the category of ...
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Morphisms of Hochschild (or cyclic) homology induced by homotopic maps
Let $f$ and $g$ be two maps between DG algebras $A$ and $B$, and assume that $f$ and $g$ are homotopic as chain maps, hence they induce the same map on the level of homology. Moreover, $f$ and $g$ ...
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When do Hochschild homology and cohomology agree? (Ambidexterity?)
Suppose $X$ is a smooth algebraic variety over a field of characteristic $0$. What are the most general conditions under which Hochschild homology and cohomology of $X$ agree?
The existence of a ...
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