The heptagon-wheel cocycle in the Kontsevich graph complex
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 vertices and 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 -wheel graph with a nonzero coefficient at every . We present detailed calculations of the differential of graphs; for the tetrahedron and pentagon-wheel cocycles, consisting at and of one and two graphs respectively, the cocycle condition is verified by hand. For the next, heptagon-wheel cocycle (known to exist at ), 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