Séminaire de Mathématique

Moduli spaces of discs and multiple zeta values in deformation quantization

by Erik Panzer (University of Oxford)

Europe/Paris
Amphithéâtre Léon Motchane (IHES)

Amphithéâtre Léon Motchane

IHES

Le Bois Marie 35, route de Chartres 91440 Bures-sur-Yvette
Description

Kontsevich's 1997 proof of the formality conjecture provides a universal quantization of every Poisson manifold, by a formal power series whose coefficients are integrals over moduli spaces of marked discs. In joint work with Peter Banks and Brent Pym, we prove that these integrals evaluate to multiple zeta values, which are interesting transcendental numbers known from the Drinfeld associator and as the periods of mixed Tate motives. Our proof is algorithmic and allows for the explicit computation of arbitrary coefficients in the formality morphism, in particular the star product. The essential tools are Francis Brown's theory of polylogarithms on the moduli space of marked genus zero curves, single-valued integration due to Oliver Schnetz, and an induction over the natural fibrations of moduli spaces.

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Maxim Kontsevich

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