String Topology and Cyclic Homology (Advanced Courses in Mathematics - Crm Barcelona)

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Notes on String Topology.- Intersection theory in loop spaces.- The cacti operad.- Field theoretic properties of string topology.- A Morse theoretic viewpoint.- Brane topology.- An Algebraic Model for Mod 2 Topological Cyclic Homology.- Preliminaries.- Free loop spaces.- Homotopy orbit spaces.- A model for mod 2 topological cyclic homology.