Permutohedral structures on E₂-operads

DOI10.1515/FORUM-2016-0052MaRDI QIDQ1683671zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ralph M. Kaufmann, Yongheng Zhang

Publication date 1 December 2017

Published in Forum Mathematicum (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.08247

\(E_{2}\)configuration spaces little discs permutohedra

Special polytopes (linear programming, centrally symmetric, etc.) (52B12) Loop spaces (55P35) Loop space machines and operads in algebraic topology (55P48) Discriminantal varieties and configuration spaces in algebraic topology (55R80)

Abstract: There are basically two interesting breeds of

E_{2}

operads, those that detect loop spaces and those that solve Deligne's conjecture. The former deformation retract to Milgram's space obtained by gluing together permutahedra at their faces. We show how the second breed can be covered by permutahedra as well. Even more is true, the quotient is actually already an operad up to homotopy, which induces the operad structure on cellular chains adapted to prove Deligne's conjecture, while no such structure is known on Milgram's space. We show, explicitely, that these two quotients are homotopy equivalent. This gives a new topological proof that operads of this type are indeed of the right homotopy type. It also furnishes a very nice clean description in terms of polyhedra, and with it PL topology, for the whole story. The permutahedra and partial orders play a central role. This, in turn, provides direct links to other fields of mathematics. We for instance find a new cellular decomposition of permutahedra using partial orders and that the permutahedra give the cells for the Dyer--Lashof operations.

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