TRANSACTIONS OF THE AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY Volume 364, Number 10, October 2012, Pages 5311–5368 S 0002-9947(2012)05667-4 Article electronically published on May 30, 2012
HOCHSCHILD (CO)HOMOLOGY OF THE SECOND KIND I
ALEXANDER POLISHCHUK AND LEONID POSITSELSKI
Abstract. We define and study the Hochschild (co)homology of the second kind (known also as the Borel-Moore Hochschild homology and the compactly supported Hochschild cohomology) for curved DG-categories. An isomorphism between the Hochschild (co)homology of the second kind of a CDG-category B and the same of the DG-category C of right CDG-modules over B, projective and finitely generated as graded B-modules, is constructed. Sufficient conditions for an isomorphism of the two kinds of Hochschild (co)homology of a DG-category are formulated in terms of the two kinds of derived categories of DG-modules over it. In particular, a kind of “reso- lution of the diagonal” condition for the diagonal CDG-bimodule B over a CDG-category B guarantees an isomorphism of the two kinds of Hochschild (co)homology of the corresponding DG-category C. Several classes of exam- ples are discussed. In particular, we show that the two kinds of Hochschild (co)homology are isomorphic for the DG-category of matrix factorizations of a regular function on a smooth affine variety over a perfect field provided that the function has no other critical values but zero.
Contents Introduction 5311 1. CDG-categories and QDG-functors 5314 2. Ext and Tor of the second kind 5320 3. Derived categories of the second kind 5338 4. Examples 5353 References 5367
Introduction CDG-algebras (where “C” stands for “curved”) were introduced in connection with nonhomogeneous Koszul duality in [13]. Several years earlier (what we would now call) A∞-algebras with curvature were considered in [3] as natural generaliza- tions of the conventional A∞-algebras. In fact, [3] appears to be the first paper where the Hochschild (and even cyclic) homology of curved algebras was discussed. Recently, interest in these algebras was rekindled by their connection with the categories of matrix factorizations [18, 2, 12, 1, 22]. In these studies the beginnings of the theory of Hochschild (co)homology for CDG-algebras have emerged. The aim of the present paper is to work out the foundations of the theory on the basis of the general formalism of derived categories of the second kind as developed in the
Received by the editors October 15, 2010. 2010 Mathematics Subject Classification. Primary 16E40; Secondary 18G10, 18G15, 18E30, 13D99.