Abstract
This paper is built on the following observation: the purity of the mixed Hodge structure on the cohomology of Brown’s moduli spaces is essentially equivalent to the freeness of the dihedral operad underlying the gravity operad. We prove these two facts by relying on both the geometric and the algebraic aspects of the problem: the complete geometric description of the cohomology of Brown’s moduli spaces and the coradical filtration of cofree cooperads. This gives a conceptual proof of an identity of Bergström and Brown which expresses the Betti numbers of Brown’s moduli spaces via the inversion of a generating series. This also generalizes the Salvatore–Tauraso theorem on the nonsymmetric Lie operad.
Citation
Clément Dupont. Bruno Vallette. "Brown's moduli spaces of curves and the gravity operad." Geom. Topol. 21 (5) 2811 - 2850, 2017. https://doi.org/10.2140/gt.2017.21.2811
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