Decorated Feynman categories

DOI10.4171/JNCG/11-4-8MaRDI QIDQ680724zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jason Lucas, Ralph M. Kaufmann

Publication date 26 January 2018

Published in Journal of Noncommutative Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.00823

zbMATH Keywords

enrichmentFeynman categoriesfunctorsmodular operadsmoduli spacesmonoidal categorynon-sigma operadsoperadssurfaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Moduli of Riemann surfaces, Teichmüller theory (complex-analytic aspects in several variables) (32G15) Loop space machines and operads in algebraic topology (55P48)

Abstract: In [KW14], the new concept of Feynman categories was introduced to simplify the discussion of operad--like objects. In this present paper, we demonstrate the usefulness of this approach, by introducing the concept of decorated Feynman categories. The procedure takes a Feynman category $mathfrakF$ and a functor $mathcalO$ to a monoidal category to produce a new Feynman category ${mathfrakF}_{decmathcalO}$. This in one swat explains the existence of non--sigma operads, non--sigma cyclic operads, and the non--sigma--modular operads of Markl as well as all the usual candidates simply from the category $mathfrakG$, which is a full subcategory of the category of graphs of [BM08]. Moreover, we explain the appearance of terminal objects noted in [Mar15]. We can then easily extend this for instance to the dihedral case. Furthermore, we obtain graph complexes and all other known operadic type notions from decorating and restricting the basic Feynman category $mathfrakG$ of aggregates of corollas. We additionally show that the construction is functorial. There are further geometric and number theoretic applications, which will follow in a separate preprint.

Review text

The notion of a Feynman category was introduced by the first author and \textit{B. Ward} in [Feynman categories. Paris: Société Mathématique de France (SMF) (2017; Zbl 1434.18001)] in order to model general structures formed by collections of operations, among which classical variants of the notion of an operad (ordinary symmetric operads, cyclic and modular operads, properads, wheeled properads, PROPS, \dots). \par In this paper, the authors define a decorated version of the notion of a Feynman category. They prove that the non-symmetric versions of the usual operad-like structures can be covered by using this extension of the notion of a Feynman category, as well as the example of \textit{M. Markl}'s dihedral modular operad [J. Noncommut. Geom. 10, No. 2, 775--809 (2016; Zbl 1375.81205)].

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