Foreword I Notes on String Topology Ralph L.Cohen and Alexander A.Vronov Introduction l Intersection theory in loop spaces 1.1 Intersections in compact manifolds 1.2 The Chas-Sullivan loop product 1.3 The BV structure and the string bracket 1.4 A stable homotopy point of view 1.5 Relation to Hochschild cohomology
2 The cacti operad 2.1 PROPs and operads 2.1.1 PROP’S 2.1.2 Algebras over a PROP 2.1.3 Operads 2.1.4 Algebras over an operad 2.1.5 Operads via generators and relations 2.2 The cacti operad 2.3 The cacti action on the loop space 2.3.1 Action via cOrrespOndences 2.3.2 The BV structure
3 String topology as field theory 3.1 Field theories 3.1.1 Topological Field Theories 3.1.2(Topological)Conformal Field Theories 3.1.3 Examples 3.1.4 Motivic TCFTs 3.2 Generalized string topology operations 3.3 Open-closed string topology
4 A Morse theoretic viewpoint 4.1 Cylindrical gradient graph flows 4.2 Cylindrical holomorphic curves in T*M
5 Brahe topology 5.1 The higher-dimensional cacti operad 5.2 The cacti action on the sphere space 5.3 The algebraic structure on homology 5.4 Sphere spaces and Hochschild homology Bibliography
II An Algebraic Model for Mod 2 Topological Cyclic Homology Kathryn He88 Preface 1 Preliminaries 1.1 Elementary definitions,terminology and notation 1.2 The canonical,enriched Adams-Hilton model 1.2.1 Twisting cochains 1.2.2 Strongly homotopy coalgebra and comodule maps 1.2.3 The canonical Adams-Hilton model 1.3 Noncommutative algebraic models of fiber squares
2 Free loop spaces 2.1 A simplicial model for the free loop space 2.1.1 The general model 2.1.2 Choosing the free loop model functorially 2.2 The multiplicative free loop space model 2.2.1 The diagonal map 2.2.2 The path fibration 2.2.3 The free loop space model 2.3 The free loop model for topological spaces 2.4 Linearization of the free loop model
3 Homotopy orbit spaces 3.1 A special family of primitives 3.2 A useful resolution of CU*ES1 3.3 Modeling S1 homotopy orbits 3.4 The case of the free loop space ……