Batalin-Vilkovisky Structures on Ext and Tor
Niels Kowalzig, Ulrich Kraehmer

TL;DR
This paper develops a unified algebraic framework for homology theories associated with Hopf algebroids, introducing Batalin-Vilkovisky structures on Ext and Tor, and generalizing classical geometric operators and Calabi-Yau algebra results.
Contribution
It constructs a Lie derivative and a Batalin-Vilkovisky module structure on Ext and Tor for Hopf algebroids, extending classical geometric and algebraic results.
Findings
Explicit Gerstenhaber algebra structure on Ext_U(A,A)
Construction of a Lie derivative satisfying a generalized Cartan-Rinehart formula
Extension of Ginzburg's BV algebra result to twisted Calabi-Yau algebras
Abstract
This article studies the algebraic structure of homology theories defined by a left Hopf algebroid U over a possibly noncommutative base algebra A, such as for example Hochschild, Lie algebroid (in particular Lie algebra and Poisson), or group and etale groupoid (co)homology. Explicit formulae for the canonical Gerstenhaber algebra structure on Ext_U(A,A) are given. The main technical result constructs a Lie derivative satisfying a generalised Cartan-Rinehart homotopy formula whose essence is that Tor^U(M,A) becomes for suitable right U-modules M a Batalin-Vilkovisky module over Ext_U(A,A), or in the words of Nest, Tamarkin, Tsygan and others, that Ext_U(A,A) and Tor^U(M,A) form a differential calculus. As an illustration, we show how the well-known operators from differential geometry in the classical Cartan homotopy formula can be obtained. Another application consists in generalising…
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