Comparing fat graph models of moduli space

MaRDI QIDQ6264543zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Daniela Egas Santander

Publication date 14 August 2015

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Moduli of Riemann surfaces, Teichmüller theory (complex-analytic aspects in several variables) (32G15) Relations of low-dimensional topology with graph theory (57M15) Topological quantum field theories (aspects of differential topology) (57R56)

Abstract: Godin introduced the categories of open closed fat graphs $Fa{t}^{oc}$ and admissible fat graphs $Fa{t}^{ad}$ as models of the mapping class group of open closed cobordism. We use the contractibility of the arc complex to give a new proof of Godin's result that $Fa{t}^{ad}$ is a model of the mapping class group of open-closed cobordisms. Similarly, Costello introduced a chain complex of black and white graphs $BW$-Graphs, as a rational homological model of mapping class groups. We use the result on admissible fat graphs to give a new integral proof of Costellos's result that $BW$-Graphs is a homological model of mapping class groups. The nature of this proof also provides a direct connection between both models which were previously only known to be abstractly equivalent. Furthermore, we endow Godin's model with a composition structure which models composition of cobordisms along their boundary and we use the connection between both models to give $BW$-Graphs a composition structure and show that $BW$-Graphs are actually a model for the open-closed cobordism category.

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