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Chain level Koszul duality between the Gravity and Hypercommutative operads

Algebraic Topology 2024-12-05 v1 Algebraic Geometry

Abstract

Let M0,n+1\overline{\mathcal{M}}_{0,n+1} be the moduli space of genus zero stable curves with (n+1)(n+1)-marked points. The collection M={M0,n+1}n2\overline{\mathcal{M}}=\{\overline{\mathcal{M}}_{0,n+1}\}_{n\geq 2} forms an operad in the category of complex projective varieties; its homology Hycom=H(M)Hycom= H_*(\overline{\mathcal{M}}) is called the Hypercommutative operad. In this paper we construct a chain model for the hypercommutative operad, i.e. an operad of chain complexes Cdual(M)C_*^{dual}(\overline{\mathcal{M}}) which is weakly equivalent to the operad of singular chains C(M)C_*(\overline{\mathcal{M}}). We prove that Cdual(M)C_*^{dual}(\overline{\mathcal{M}}) is the linear dual of the bar construction B(grav)B(grav), where gravgrav is a chain model of the gravity operad based on cacti without basepoint. This shows that the Gravity and Hypercommutative operad are Koszul dual also at the chain level, refining a previous result of Getzler. The construction is topological, since Cdual(M)(n)C_*^{dual}(\overline{\mathcal{M}})(n) is the cellular complex associated to a regular CW-decomposition of M0,n+1\overline{\mathcal{M}}_{0,n+1}.

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@article{arxiv.2412.03474,
  title  = {Chain level Koszul duality between the Gravity and Hypercommutative operads},
  author = {Tommaso Rossi and Paolo Salvatore},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.03474},
  year   = {2024}
}

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52 pages, 25 figures, comments are welcome!

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