Planar non-formality of the little discs operad in characteristic two

DOI10.1093/QMATH/HAY063zbMATH Open1422.55022arXiv1807.11671OpenAlexW2963844322WikidataQ129000116 ScholiaQ129000116MaRDI QIDQ5225871FDOQ5225871

Paolo Salvatore

Publication date: 29 July 2019

Published in: The Quarterly Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We show that the little discs operad $D_2$ is not formal over $mathbb{F}_2$ as a planar (or non-symmetric) operad. We compute explicitly the homological obstruction using as chain model the cells of the spineless cacti operad

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.11671

zbMATH Keywords

formalityobstructionlittle discs operadtopological operad

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Loop space machines and operads in algebraic topology (55P48)

Cited In (7)

• Non-formality of the Swiss-cheese operad
• Framed \(E_2\) structures in Floer theory
• Formality of the little \(N\)-disks operad
• Formality of a higher-codimensional Swiss-cheese operad
• A Künneth theorem for configuration spaces
• Cyclic operad formality for compactified moduli spaces of genus zero surfaces
• On the formality of the little disks operad in positive characteristic

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