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The Batalin-Vilkovisky Algebra on Hochschild Cohomology Induced by Infinity Inner Products

The Batalin-Vilkovisky Algebra on Hochschild Cohomology Induced by Infinity Inner Products

We define a BV-structure on the Hochschild cohomology of a unital, associative algebra A with a symmetric, invariant and non-degenerate inner product. The induced Gerstenhaber algebra is the one described in Gerstenhaber's original paper on Hochschild-cohomology. We also prove the corresponding theorem in the homotopy case, namely we define the …