Dessins for modular operads and the Grothendieck-Teichmüller group

DOI10.4171/IRMA/33-1/24MaRDI QIDQ2055095zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Noémie Combe, Matilde Marcolli, Yuri I. Manin

Publication date 3 December 2021

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.13663

Universal profinite groups (relationship to moduli spaces, projective and moduli towers, Galois theory) (14G32) Dessins d'enfants theory (14H57) Operads (general) (18M60) Polycategories/dioperads, properads, PROPs, cyclic operads, modular operads (18M85) Quantum equilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82B10)

Abstract: A part of Grothendieck's program for studying the Galois group

G_{m a t h b b Q}

of the field of all algebraic numbers

o v e r l i n e m a t h b b Q

emerged from his insight that one should lift its action upon

o v e r l i n e m a t h b b Q

to the action of

G_{m a t h b b Q}

upon the (appropriately defined) profinite completion of

p i_{1} ({m a t h b b P}^{1} s e t m i n u s 0, 1, i n f t y)

. The latter admits a good combinatorial encoding via finite graphs "dessins d'enfant". This part was actively developing during the last decades, starting with foundational works of A. Belyi, V. Drinfeld and Y. Ihara. Our brief note concerns another part of Grothendieck program, in which its geometric environment is extended to moduli spaces of algebraic curves, more specifically, stable curves of genus zero with marked/labelled points. Our main goal is to show that dual graphs of such curves may play the role of "modular dessins" in an appropriate operadic context.

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Summary: A part of Grothendieck's program for studying the Galois group \(G_Q\) of the field of all algebraic numbers \(\overline{Q}\) emerged from his insight that one should lift its action upon \(\overline{Q}\) to the action of \(G_Q\) upon the (appropriately defined) profinite completion of \(\pi_1(\mathrm{P}^1\{0,1,\infty\})\). The latter admits a good combinatorial encoding via finite graphs, ``dessins d'enfant. This part was actively developing during the last decades, starting with foundational works of A. Belyi, V. Drinfeld and Y. Ihara. This chapter concerns another part of Grothendieck's program, in which its geometric environment is extended to moduli spaces of algebraic curves, more specifically, stable curves of genus zero with marked/labeled points. Our main goal is to show that dual graphs of such curves may play the role of ``modular dessins in an appropriate operadic context. For the entire collection see [Zbl 1466.57001].

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