Wheeled PROPs, graph complexes and the master equation
By Martin Markl, Sergei Merkulov, Sergey Shadrin. 2006
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Abstract We introduce and study wheeled PROPs, an extension of the theory of PROPs which can treat traces and, in particular, solutions to the master equations which involve divergence operators. We construct a dg free wheeled PROP whose representations are in one-to-one correspondence with formal germs of SP-manifolds, key geometric objects in the theory of Batalin–Vilkovisky quantization. We also construct minimal wheeled resolutions of classical operads Com and Ass as non-trivial extensions of the well-known dg operads Com ∞ and Ass ∞ . Finally, we apply the above results to a computation of cohomology of a directed version of Kontsevich’s complex of ribbon graphs.
Subfields: Algebra and Number Theory, Geometry and Topology, Mathematical Physics
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- The structure of 2D semi-simple field theories (2007, background): “In this case, self-sewing of single surfaces enhances this to a wheeled PROP (a notion introduced in [26]).”