The Hochschild cohomology of a closed manifold

Let M be a closed orientable manifold of dimension d and be the usual cochain algebra on M with coefficients in a field k. The Hochschild cohomology of M, is a graded commutative and associative algebra. The augmentation map induces a morphism of algebras . In this paper we produce a chain model for the morphism I. We show that the kernel of I is a nilpotent ideal and that the image of I is contained in the center of , which is in general quite small. The algebra is expected to be isomorphic to the loop homology constructed by Chas and Sullivan. Thus our results would be translated in terms of string homology.