Computations in formal symplectic geometry and characteristic classes of moduli spaces

DOI10.4171/QT/61MaRDI QIDQ2344897zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Shigeyuki Morita, Takuya Sakasai, Masaaki Suzuki

Publication date 19 May 2015

Published in Quantum Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1207.4350

zbMATH Keywords

graph homologymoduli space of curvesautomorphism groups of free groupsfinite type invariantstransversely symplectic foliationsymplectic derivation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Homological methods in Lie (super)algebras (17B55) Geometric group theory (20F65) Foliations in differential topology; geometric theory (57R30) Classifying spaces for foliations; Gelfand-Fuks cohomology (57R32)

Abstract: We make explicit computations in the formal symplectic geometry of Kontsevich and determine the Euler characteristics of the three cases, namely commutative, Lie and associative ones, up to certain weights.From these, we obtain some non-triviality results in each case. In particular, we determine the integral Euler characteristics of the outer automorphism groups Out F_n of free groups for all n <= 10 and prove the existence of plenty of rational cohomology classes of odd degrees. We also clarify the relationship of the commutative graph homology with finite type invariants of homology 3-spheres as well as the leaf cohomology classes for transversely symplectic foliations. Furthermore we prove the existence of several new non-trivalent graph homology classes of odd degrees. Based on these computations, we propose a few conjectures and problems on the graph homology and the characteristic classes of the moduli spaces of graphs as well as curves.

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Cited in

(13)

• On computational Poisson geometry. I: Symbolic foundations
• On the low-dimensional cohomology groups of the IA-automorphism group of the free group of rank three
• Computations in moduli spaces
• Euler characteristics for spaces of string links and the modular envelope of \(\mathcal{L}_{\infty}\)
• Tropical curves, graph complexes, and top weight cohomology of ℳ_{ℊ}
• The topology and geometry of automorphism groups of free groups
• Computation of Kontsevich weights of connection and curvature graphs for symplectic Poisson structures
• Tropical curves and covers and their moduli spaces
• Torelli group, Johnson kernel, and invariants of homology spheres
• Characteristic classes of moduli spaces -- Riemann surface, graph, homology cobordism
• An abelian quotient of the symplectic derivation Lie algebra of the free Lie algebra
• The Euler characteristic of the moduli space of graphs
• Structure of symplectic invariant Lie subalgebras of symplectic derivation Lie algebras

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