Batalin-Vilkovisky algebra structures on Hochschild cohomology
Let be any compact simply-connected oriented -dimensional smooth manifold and let be any field. We show that the Gerstenhaber algebra structure on the Hochschild cohomology on the singular cochains of , , extends to a Batalin-Vilkovisky algebra. Such Batalin-Vilkovisky algebra was conjectured to exist and is expected to be isomorphic to the Batalin-Vilkovisky algebra on the free loop space homology on , introduced by Chas and Sullivan. We also show that the negative cyclic cohomology ...