BV rigidity in the string topology of compact Lie groups
Let $G$ be a connected compact Lie group and $R$ a commutative ring over which $H_*(G;R)$ is an exterior algebra on odd primitive generators. We prove a rigidity theorem: the Batalin-Vilkovisky (BV) algebra $\mathbb{H}_*(LG;R)$ of Chas and Sullivan on the homology of the free loop space is that of the product of odd sp...