Reflexive homology and involutive Hochschild homology as equivariant Loday constructions

Abstract

We prove that for commutative rings whose underlying abelian group is flat and in which $2$ is invertible, the homotopy groups at the trivial orbit of the equivariant Loday construction of the one-point compactification of the sign-representation are isomorphic to reflexive homology as studied by Graves and to involutive Hochschild homology defined by Fern\`andez-al\`encia and Giansiracusa. We also show a relative version of these results for commutative $k$-algebras $R$ with involution, whenever $2$ is invertible in $R$ and $R$ is flat as a $k$-module.