Diagonal complexes

DOI10.1070/IM8763MaRDI QIDQ4645135zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors J. Gordon, G. Panina

Publication date 10 January 2019

Published in Izvestiya: Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.01603

zbMATH Keywords

associahedronChern classcurve complexmoduli spaceribbon graphs

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of simplicial complexes (05E45) Moduli of Riemann surfaces, Teichmüller theory (complex-analytic aspects in several variables) (32G15) Polyhedral manifolds (52B70)

Abstract: Given an $n$-gon, the poset of all collections of pairwise non-crossing diagonals is isomorphic to the face poset of some convex polytope called extit{associahedron}. We replace in this setting the $n$-gon (viewed as a disc with $n$ marked points on the boundary) with an arbitrary oriented surface with a number of labeled marked points ("vertices"). With appropriate definitions we arrive at cell complexes $mathcalD$ (generalization of) and its barycentric subdivision $mathcalBD$. The complex $mathcalD$ generalizes the associahedron. If the surface is closed, the complex $mathcalD$ (as well as $mathcalBD$) is homotopy equivalent to the space of metric ribbon graphs $R{G}_{g,n}^{met}$, or, equivalently, to the decorated moduli space $widetilde{mathcalM}_{g,n}$. For bordered surfaces, we prove the following: (1) Contraction of a boundary edge does not change the homotopy type of the support of the complex. (2) Contraction of a boundary component to a new marked point yields a forgetful map between two diagonal complexes which is homotopy equivalent to the Kontsevich's tautological circle bundle. Thus, contraction of a boundary component gives a natural simplicial model for the tautological bundle. As an application, we compute the psi-class, that is, the first Chern class in combinatorial terms. The latter result is an application of the local combinatorial formula. (3) In the same way, contraction of several boundary components corresponds to Whitney sum of the tautological bundles.

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