Victor Turchin

Dyer-Lashof-Cohen operations in Hochschild cohomology

It is already well known that Hochschild cohomology complex is endowed with an action of an operad quasi-isomorphic to the chains operad of little squares. It means in particular that Hochschild cohomology has the same operations as the homology of double loop spaces. For instance, cup-product corresponds to Pontriagyn product, Gerstenhaber bracket corresponds to the Browder operator. We will present explicit formulae for unary Hochschild cohomology operations analogous to operations ξ1 and ζ1 introduced by Araki-Kudo for p = 2 and by F.Cohen for p > 2.