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Vasily Dolgushev

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Stable Formality Quasi-isomorphisms for Hochschild Cochains

We consider L-infinity quasi-isomorphisms for Hochschild cochains whose structure maps admit "graphical expansion". We introduce the notion of stable formality quasi-isomorphism which formalizes such an L-infinity quasi-isomorphism. We define a homotopy equivalence on the set of stable formality quasi-isomorphisms and prove that the set of homotopy classes of stable formality quasi-isomorphisms form a torsor for the group corresponding to the zeroth cohomology of the full (directed) graph complex. This result may be interpreted as a complete description of homotopy classes of formality quasi-isomorphisms for Hochschild cochains in the "stable setting".

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Towards deformation quantization over a Z-graded base

The goal of this note is to describe a class of formal deformations of a symplectic manifold $M$ in the case when the base ring of the deformation problem involves parameters of non-positive degrees. The interesting feature of such deformations is that these are deformations "in $A_{\infty}$-direction" and, in general, their description involves all cohomology classes of $M$ of degrees $\ge 2$.

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A Formality quasi-isomorphism for Hochschild cochains over rationals can be constructed recursively

It is believed arXiv:0808.2762, arXiv:math/9904055 that, among the coefficients entering Kontsevich's formality quasi-isomorphism arXiv:q-alg/9709040, there are irrational (possibly even transcendental) numbers. In this paper, we prove that a formality quasi-isomorphism for Hochschild cochains of a polynomial algebra over rationals can be constructed recursively. The proof that the proposed recursive algorithm works, is based on the existence of formality quasi-isomorphism over reals. However, the algorithm requires no explicit knowledge of the coefficients entering Kontsevich's construction. Although this algorithm completely bypasses Tamarkin's approach arXiv:math/0003052, arXiv:math/9803025, the construction is inspired by Proposition 5.8 from the classical paper (Algebra i Analiz, 1990) by V. Drinfeld.

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Tamarkin's construction is equivariant with respect to the action of the Grothendieck-Teichmueller group

Recall that Tamarkin's construction arXiv:math/9803025, arXiv:math/0003052 gives us a map from the set of Drinfeld associators to the set of homotopy classes of L-infinity quasi-isomorphisms for Hochschild cochains of a polynomial algebra. Due to results of V. Drinfeld (Algebra i Analiz 2, (1990)) and T. Willwacher arXiv:1009.1654 both the source and the target of this map are equipped with natural actions of the Grothendieck-Teichmueller group $GRT_1$. In this paper, we use the result from arXiv:1305.4699 to prove that this map from the set of Drinfeld associators to the set of homotopy classes of L-infinity quasi-isomorphisms for Hochschild cochains is $GRT_1$-equivariant.

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Kontsevich's graph complex, GRT, and the deformation complex of the sheaf of polyvector fields

We generalize Kontsevich's construction of L-infinity derivations of polyvector fields from the affine space to an arbitrary smooth algebraic variety. More precisely, we construct a map (in the homotopy category) from Kontsevich's graph complex to the deformation complex of the sheaf of polyvector fields on a smooth algebraic variety. We show that the action of Deligne-Drinfeld elements of the Grothendieck-Teichmueller Lie algebra on the cohomology of the sheaf of polyvector fields coincides with the action of odd components of the Chern character. Using this result, we deduce that the A-hat genus in the Calaque-Van den Bergh formula arXiv:0708.2725 for the isomorphism between harmonic and Hochschild structures can be replaced by a generalized A-hat genus.

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Operadic Twisting -- with an application to Deligne's conjecture

We study categorial properties of the operadic twisting functor Tw. In particular, we show that Tw is a comonad. Coalgebras of this comonad are operads for which a natural notion of twisting by Maurer-Cartan elements exists. We give a large class of examples, including the classical cases of the Lie, associative and Gerstenhaber operads, and their infinity-counterparts L-infinity, A-infinity, G-infinity. We also show that Tw is well behaved with respect to the homotopy theory of operads. As an application we show that every solution of Deligne's conjecture is homotopic to a solution that is compatible with twisting.

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Exhausting formal quantization procedures

In paper arXiv:1109.6031 the author introduced stable formality quasi-isomorphisms and described the set of its homotopy classes. This result can be interpreted as a complete description of formal quantization procedures. In this note we give a brief exposition of stable formality quasi-isomorphisms and prove that every homotopy class of stable formality quasi-isomorphisms contains a representative which admits globalization. This note is loosely based on the talk given by the author at the XXX Workshop on Geometric Methods in Physics in Bialowieza, Poland.

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Formality theorem for Hochschild cochains via transfer

We construct a 2-colored operad G^+ which, on the one hand, extends the operad G governing homotopy Gerstenhaber algebras and, on the other hand, extends the 2-colored operad governing open-closed homotopy algebras (OCHA). We show that Tamarkin's G-structure on the Hochschild cochain complex C(A) of an A-infinity algebra A extends naturally to a G^+ structure on the pair (C(A), A). We show that a formality quasi-isomorphism for the Hochschild cochains of the polynomial algebra can be obtained via transfer of this G^+ structure to the cohomology of the pair (C(A), A). We show that G^+ is a sub DG operad of the first sheet E^1(SC) of the homology spectral sequence for the Fulton-MacPherson version SC of Voronov's Swiss Cheese operad. Finally, we prove that the DG operads G^+ and E^1(SC) are non-formal.

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