diff -r 651d16126999 -r 937214896458 text/a_inf_blob.tex --- a/text/a_inf_blob.tex Thu Aug 11 12:08:38 2011 -0600 +++ b/text/a_inf_blob.tex Thu Aug 11 12:59:06 2011 -0600 @@ -418,14 +418,31 @@ \begin{rem} Lurie has shown in \cite[Theorem 3.8.6]{0911.0018} that the topological chiral homology of an $n$-manifold $M$ with coefficients in a certain $E_n$ algebra constructed from $T$ recovers -the same space of singular chains on maps from $M$ to $T$, with the additional hypothesis that $T$ is $n-1$-connected. +the same space of singular chains on maps from $M$ to $T$, with the additional hypothesis that $T$ is $n{-}1$-connected. This extra hypothesis is not surprising, in view of the idea described in Example \ref{ex:e-n-alg} that an $E_n$ algebra is roughly equivalent data to an $A_\infty$ $n$-category which is trivial at levels 0 through $n-1$. Ricardo Andrade also told us about a similar result. + +Specializing still further, Theorem \ref{thm:map-recon} is related to the classical result that for connected spaces $T$ +we have $HH_*(C_*(\Omega T)) \cong H_*(LT)$, that is, the Hochschild homology of based loops in $T$ is isomorphic +to the homology of the free loop space of $T$ (see \cite{MR793184} and \cite{MR842427}). +Theorem \ref{thm:map-recon} says that for any space $T$ (connected or not) we have +$\bc_*(S^1; C_*(\pi^\infty_{\le 1}(T))) \simeq C_*(LT)$. +Here $C_*(\pi^\infty_{\le 1}(T))$ denotes the singular chain version of the fundamental infinity-groupoid of $T$, +whose objects are points in $T$ and morphism chain complexes are $C_*(\paths(t_1 \to t_2))$ for $t_1, t_2 \in T$. +If $T$ is connected then the $A_\infty$ 1-category $C_*(\pi^\infty_{\le 1}(T))$ is Morita equivalent to the +$A_\infty$ algebra $C_*(\Omega T)$; +the bimodule for the equivalence is the singular chains of the space of paths which start at the base point of $T$. +Theorem \ref{thm:hochschild} holds for $A_\infty$ 1-categories (though we do not prove that in this paper), +which then implies that +\[ + Hoch_*(C_*(\Omega T)) \simeq Hoch_*(C_*(\pi^\infty_{\le 1}(T))) + \simeq \bc_*(S^1; C_*(\pi^\infty_{\le 1}(T))) \simeq C_*(LT) . +\] \end{rem} -\begin{proof} +\begin{proof}[Proof of Theorem \ref{thm:map-recon}] The proof is again similar to that of Theorem \ref{thm:product}. We begin by constructing a chain map $\psi: \cB^\cT(M) \to C_*(\Maps(M\to T))$.