Cyclic operads and algebra of chord diagrams

DOI10.1007/S00029-002-8106-2zbMATH Open0999.18008arXivmath/0005197OpenAlexW2070925821MaRDI QIDQ699671FDOQ699671

Vladimir Hinich, Arkady Vaintrob

Publication date: 25 September 2002

Published in: Selecta Mathematica. New Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We prove that the algebra $calA$ of chord diagrams, the dual to the associated graded algebra of Vassiliev knot invariants, is isomorphic to the universal enveloping algebra of a Casimir Lie algebra in a certain tensor category (the PROP for Casimir Lie algebras). This puts on a firm ground a known statement that the algebra $calA$ ``looks and behaves like a universal enveloping algebra. An immediate corollary of our result is the conjecture of Bar-Natan, Garoufalidis, Rozansky, and Thurston on the Kirillov-Duflo isomorphism for algebras of chord diagrams. Our main tool is a general construction of a functor from the category $mathttCycOp$ of cyclic operads to the category $mathttModOp$ of modular operads which is left adjoint to the ``tree part functor $mathttModOpomathttCycOp$. The algebra of chord diagrams arises when this construction is applied to the operad for Lie algebras. Another example of this construction is Kontsevich's graph complex that corresponds to the operad for homotopy Lie algebras.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0005197

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zbMATH Keywords

chord diagrammodular operadVassiliev invariantcyclic operadCasimir Lie algebra

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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