Trace theories and localization

We show how one can twist the definition of Hochschild homology of an algebra or a DG algebra by inserting a possibly non-additive trace functor. We then prove that many of the usual properties of Hochschild homology survive such a generalization. In some cases this even includes Keller's Localization Theorem.Comment: LaTeX, 49 pages. Final version. Minor updates, mostly in the introductio

Spectral sequences for cyclic homology

We prove that for a homologically smooth and proper DG algebra over a field of characteristic 0, the Hodge-to-de Rham spectral sequence degenerates. This has been conjectured by M. Kontsevich and Y. Soibelman arXiv:math/0606241 and proved in arXiv:math/0611623 under a technical assumption. In this paper, the assumption is removed, and the argument is considerably simplified (in particular, it no longer uses Dold-Kan equivalence and simplicial methods). We also analyse the degeneration of the conjugate spectral sequence in positive caracteristic constructed in arXiv:1509.08784.Comment: LaTeX2e, 37 page