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The heptagon-wheel cocycle in the Kontsevich graph complex

Combinatorics 2018-01-03 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP Quantum Algebra Symplectic Geometry

Abstract

The real vector space of non-oriented graphs is known to carry a differential graded Lie algebra structure. Cocycles in the Kontsevich graph complex, expressed using formal sums of graphs on nn vertices and 2n22n-2 edges, induce -- under the orientation mapping -- infinitesimal symmetries of classical Poisson structures on arbitrary finite-dimensional affine real manifolds. Willwacher has stated the existence of a nontrivial cocycle that contains the (2+1)(2\ell+1)-wheel graph with a nonzero coefficient at every N\ell\in\mathbb{N}. We present detailed calculations of the differential of graphs; for the tetrahedron and pentagon-wheel cocycles, consisting at =1\ell = 1 and =2\ell = 2 of one and two graphs respectively, the cocycle condition d(γ)=0d(\gamma) = 0 is verified by hand. For the next, heptagon-wheel cocycle (known to exist at =3\ell = 3), we provide an explicit representative: it consists of 46 graphs on 8 vertices and 14 edges.

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@article{arxiv.1710.00658,
  title  = {The heptagon-wheel cocycle in the Kontsevich graph complex},
  author = {Ricardo Buring and Arthemy Kiselev and Nina Rutten},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.00658},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

Special Issue JNMP 2017 `Local and nonlocal symmetries in Mathematical Physics'; 17 journal-style pages, 54 figures, 3 tables; v2 accepted