Pairings in Hopf cyclic cohomology of algebras and coalgebras with coefficients

Abstract

AbstractThis paper is concerned with the theory of cup products in the Hopf cyclic cohomology of algebras and coalgebras. We show that the cyclic cohomology of a coalgebra can be obtained from a construction involving the noncommutative Weil algebra. Then we introduce the notion of higher -twisted traces and use a generalization of the Quillen and Crainic constructions (see [14] and [3]) to define the cup product. We discuss the relation of the cup product above and S-operations on cyclic cohomology. We show that the product we define can be realized as a combination of the composition product in bivariant cyclic cohomology and a map from the cyclic cohomology of coalgebras to bivariant cohomology. In the last section, we briefly discuss the relation of our constructions with that in [9]. More precisely, we propose still another construction of such pairings which can be regarded as an intermediate step between the “Crainic” pairing and that of [9]. We show that it coincides with what in [9] and as far its relation to Crainic's construction is concerned, we reduce the question to a discussuion of a certain map in cohomology (see the question at the end of section 5).The results of the current paper were announced in [12].