String topology and cyclic homology

i notes on string topology
ralph l. cohen and alexander a. voronov
introduction
1 intersection theory in loop spaces
1.1 intersections in compact manifolds
1.2 the chas-sullivan loop product
1.3 the bv structure and the string
bracket
1.4 a stable homotopy point of view
1.5 relation to hochschild cohomology
2 the cacti operad
2.1 props and operads
2.1.1 prop's
2.1.2 algebras over a prop
2.1.3 operads
2.1.4 algebras over an operad
2.1.5 operads via generators and relations
2.2 the cacti operad
2.3 the cacti action on the loop space
.2.3.1 action via
correspondences
2.3.2 the bv structure
3 string topology as field theory
3.1 field theories
3.1.1 topological field
theories
3.1.2 (topological) conformal field
theories
3.1.3 examples
3.1.4 motivic tcfts
3.2 generalized string topology operations
3.3 open-closed string topology
4 a morse theoretic viewpoint
4.1 cylindrical gradient graph flows
4.2 cylindrical holomorphic curves in t*m
5 brahe topology
5.1 the higher-dimensional cacti operad
5.2 the cacti action on the sphere space
5.3 the algebraic structure on homology
5.4 sphere spaces and hochschild homology
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ii an algebraic model for mod 2 topological cyclic homology
kathryn hess
preface
1 preliminaries
1.1 elementary definitions, terminology and
notation
1.2 the canonical, enriched adams-hilton
model
1.2.1 twisting cochains
1.2.2 strongly homotopy coalgebra
and comodule maps
1.2.3 the canonical adams-hilton
model
1.3 noncommutative algebraic models of fiber
squares
2 free loop spaces
2.1 a simplicial model for the free loop
space
2.1.1 the general model
2.1.2 choosing the free loop model
functorially
2.2 the multiplicative free loop space
model
2.2.1 the diagonal map
2.2.2 the path fibration
2.2.3 the free loop space
model
2.3 the free loop model for topological
spaces
2.4 linearization of the free loop model
3 homotopy orbit spaces
3.1 a special family of primitives
3.2 a useful resolution of cu, es1
3.3 modeling s1-homotopy orbits
3.4 the case of the free loop space
4 a model for mod 2 topological cyclic homology
4.1 the pth-power map
4.2 topological cyclic homology
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