Abstract:
In this paper we show that a strongly homotopy commutative (or $C_\infty$-) algebra with an invariant inner product on its cohomology can be uniquely extended to a symplectic $C_\infty$-algebra (an $\infty$-generalisation of a commutative Frobenius algebra introduced by Kontsevich). This result relies on the algebraic Hodge decomposition of the cyclic Hochschild cohomology of a $C_\infty$-algebra and does not generalize to algebras over other operads.
Key words and phrases:infinity-algebra, cyclic cohomology, Harrison cohomology, symplectic structure, Hodge decomposition.