Koszul duality theory for operads over Hopf algebras

Abstract

The transfer of the generating operations of an algebra to a homotopy equivalent chain complex produces higher operations. The first goal of this paper is to describe precisely the higher structure obtained when the unary operations commute with the contracting homotopy. To solve this problem, we develop the Koszul duality theory of operads in the category of modules over a cocommutative Hopf algebra. This gives rise to a simpler category of homotopy algebras and infinity morphisms, which allows us to get a new description of the homotopy category of algebras over such operads. The main example of this theory is given by Batalin–Vilkovisky algebras.