Graph cohomology and Kontsevich cycles (Q1888455)

Kontsevich proved that the cohomology of a certain graph complex and the homology of the disjoint union of classifying spaces of mapping class groups are rationally isomorphic. This paper provides a rational chain homotopy equivalence inducing such an isomorphism, and gives a formula relating the dual Kontsevich cycles in graph cohomology with the Miller-Morita-Mumford classes in the cohomology of the mapping class groups. The former are expressed as polynomials in the latter, and the coefficients of the first two terms are computed explicitly.