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Kontsevich graphs act on Nambu--Poisson brackets, IV. When the invisible becomes crucial

Combinatorics 2026-04-07 v2 Quantum Algebra Symplectic Geometry

Abstract

Kontsevich's graphs allow encoding multi-vectors whose coefficients are differential-polynomial in the coefficients of a given Poisson bracket on an affine real manifold. Encoding formulas by directed graphs adapts to the class of Nambu-determinant Poisson brackets, yet the graph topology becomes dimension-specific. To inspect whether a given Kontsevich graph cocycle γ\gamma acts (non)trivially -- in the second Poisson cohomology -- on the space of Nambu brackets, taking a vector field solution Xdγ\smash{\vec{X}^\gamma_d} from dimension dd does not work in d+1d+1. For 2d42 \leqslant d \leqslant 4, the action of tetrahedron γ3\gamma_3 on Nambu brackets is known to be a Poisson coboundary, P˙=[[P,Xdγ3(P)]]\dot{P} = [[ P,\smash{\vec{X}^{\gamma_3}_d} (P)]]. We explore which minimal (sub)sets of graphs, encoding (non)vanishing objects over Raffd\mathbb{R}^d_{\text{aff}}, generate the topological data that suffice for a solution Xd+1γ3\smash{\vec{X}^{\gamma_3}_{d+1}} to appear. We detect that there can be no solution in higher dimension without invisible graphs that vanish as formulas in d=3d=3, but whose descendants do not all vanish over d=4d=4.

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@article{arxiv.2503.10916,
  title  = {Kontsevich graphs act on Nambu--Poisson brackets, IV. When the invisible becomes crucial},
  author = {Mollie S. Jagoe Brown and Arthemy V. Kiselev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.10916},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

A sequel to namesake articles I. (arXiv:2409.18875), II. (arXiv:2409.12555), and III. (arXiv:2409.15932), with necessary quotations from II. Talk given by the first author at the XXIX International conference on integrable systems and quantum symmetries -- ISQS29 (7--11 July 2025, CVUT Prague, CZ); 2 tables, 45 pages