The cohomology ring of the real locus of the moduli space of stable curves of genus 0 with marked points

Details The cohomology ring of the real locus of the moduli space of stable curves of genus 0 with marked points The cohomology ring of the real locus of the moduli space of stable curves of genus 0 with marked points

2005-07-25

arxiv.org/abs/math/0507514v2

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Algebraic Topology

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We compute the Poincare polynomial and the cohomology algebra with rational coefficeints of the manifold M_n of real points of the moduli space of algebraic curves of genus 0 with n labeled points. This cohomology is a quadratic algebra, and we conjecture that it is Koszul. We also compute the 2-local torsion in the cohomology of M_n. As was shown by E. Rains in arXiv:math/0610743 the cohomology of M_n does not have odd torsion, so that the above determines the additive structure of the integral homology and cohomology. Further, we prove that the rational homology operad of M_n is the operad of 2-Gerstenhaber algebras, which is closely related to the Hanlon-Wachs operad of 2-Lie algebras (generated by a ternary bracket). Finally, using Drinfeld's theory of quantization of coboundary Lie quasibialgebras, we show that a large series of representations of the quadratic dual Lie algebra L_n of H^*(M_n,Q) (associated to such quasibialgebras) factors through the the natural projection of L_n to the associated graded Lie algebra of the prounipotent completion of the fundamental group of M_n. This leads us to conjecture that the said projection is an isomorphism, which would imply a formula for lower central series ranks of the fundamental group. On the other hand, we show that the spaces M_n are not formal starting from n=6.

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