The free-loop-space Hochschild cohomology Gerstenhaber algebra isomorphism conjecture

Let MM be a compact oriented dd-dimensional smooth manifold, let LM=map(S1,M)LM=map(S^1,M) be its free loop space, and let S(M)S^*(M) denote the differential graded algebra of singular cochains on MM. Write H+d(LM)H_{*+d}(LM) for shifted free loop homology and HH(S(M);S(M))HH^*(S^*(M);S^*(M)) for Hochschild cohomology. Gerstenhaber algebra isomorphism conjecture. If MM is simply connected, then there is an isomorphism of Gerstenhaber algebras

H+d(LM)HH(S(M);S(M)).H_{*+d}(LM)\cong HH^*(S^*(M);S^*(M)).

This conjecture proposes the algebraic realization of the Chas–Sullivan Gerstenhaber structure on free loop homology through Hochschild cohomology. The source attributes it to Chas and Sullivan or Cohen and Jones, and does not state whether it has been resolved.

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Luc Menichi, “Batalin-Vilkovisky algebra structures on Hochschild Cohomology”, arXiv:0711.1946 (2007).

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