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For every differential graded Lie algebra $\mathfrak{g}$ one can define two different group actions on the Maurer-Cartan elements: the ubiquitous gauge action and the action of $\mathrm{Lie}_\infty$-isotopies of $\mathfrak{g}$, which we call the ambient action. In this note, we explain how the assertion of gauge triviality of a homologically trivial ambient action relates to the calculus of dendriform, Zinbiel, and Rota-Baxter algebras, and to Eulerian idempotents. In particular, we exhibit new relationships between these algebraic structures and the operad of rational functions defined by Loday., Comment: 23 pages, comments are welcome

We prove that a variety of Novikov algebras has a distributive lattice of subvarieties if and only if the lattice of its subvarieties defined by identities of degree three is distributive, thus answering, in the case of Novikov algebras, a question of Bokut from about fifty years ago. As a byproduct, we classify all Koszul operads with one binary generator of which the Novikov operad is a quotient., Comment: 32 pages, comments are welcome

We characterise the chain rule symmetry for the geometric stochastic heat equations in the full subcritical regime for Gaussian and non-Gaussian noises. We show that the renormalised counter-terms that give a solution invariant under changes of coordinates are generated by iterations of covariant derivatives. The result was known only for space-time white noises, with a very specific proof that so far could not be extended to the general case. The key idea of the present paper is to change the perspective on several levels and to use ideas coming from operad theory and homological algebra. Concretely, we introduce the operad of Christoffel trees that captures the counter-terms of the renormalised equation; our main new insight is to describe the space of invariant terms homologically, using a suitable perturbation of the differential of the operadic twisting of that operad. As a consequence, we obtain the correct renormalisation for the quasi-linear KPZ equation in the subcritical regime completing the programme started by Hairer and Gerencser. Previously, the main algebraic tool used in the study of singular SPDEs were Hopf algebras of decorated trees; our work shows that operad theory and homological algebra add new powerful tools with immediate applications to open problems that were out of reach by other methods., Comment: 42 pages

In earlier work of three of the authors of the present paper, a supercommutative quadratic algebra was associated to each symmetric quiver, and a new proof of positivity of motivic Donaldson-Thomas invariants of symmetric quivers was given using the so called numerical Koszul property of these algebras. It was furthermore conjectured that for each symmetric quiver such an algebra is Koszul. In this work, we lift the linking and unlinking operations on symmetric quivers of Ekholm, Longhi and the third author to the level of quadratic algebras, and use those lifts to prove the Koszulness conjecture., Comment: 11 pages, comments are welcome

We prove a theorem that computes, for any augmented operad $\mathcal{O}$, the stable homology of the Lie algebra of derivations of the free algebra $\mathcal{O}(V)$ with twisted bivariant coefficients (here stabilization occurs as $\dim(V)\to\infty$) out of the homology of the wheeled bar construction of $\mathcal{O}$; this can further be used to prove uniform mixed representation stability for the homology of the positive part of that Lie algebra with constant coefficients. This result generalizes both the Loday-Quillen-Tsygan theorem on the homology of the Lie algebra of infinite matrices and the Fuchs stability theorem for the homology of the Lie algebra of vector fields. We also prove analogous theorems for the Lie algebras of derivations with zero divergence, in which case one has to consider the wheeled bar construction of the wheeled completion of $\mathcal{O}$. Similarly to how cyclic homology of an algebra $A$ may be viewed as an additive version of the algebraic $K$-theory of $A$, our results hint at the additive $K$-theoretic nature of the wheeled bar construction., Comment: 50 pages, substantially revised version

In this work, we introduce multi-Novikov algebras, a generalisation of Novikov algebras with several binary operations indexed by a given set, and show that the multi-indices recently introduced in the context of singular stochastic partial differential equations can be interpreted as free multi-Novikov algebras. This is parallel to the fact that decorated rooted trees arising in the context of regularity structures are related to free multi-pre-Lie algebras., Comment: 23 pages

A metaphor of Jean-Louis Loday describes Lie, associative, and commutative associative algebras as ``the three graces'' of the operad theory. In this article, we study the three graces in the category of $\mathfrak{sl}_2$-modules that are sums of copies of the trivial and the adjoint representation. That category is not symmetric monoidal, and so one cannot apply the wealth of results available for algebras over operads. Motivated by a recent conjecture of the second author and Mathieu, we embark on the exploration of the extent to which that category ``pretends'' to be symmetric monoidal. To that end, we examine various homological properties of free associative algebras and free associative commutative algebras, and study the Lie subalgebra generated by the generators of the free associative algebra., Comment: 17 pages, comments are welcome

We present some results, both rigorously mathematical and computational, showing unexpected relations between different identities expressing nilpotence in nonassociative algebras, and formulate a number of conjectural generalizations and related questions., Comment: 12 pages, comments are welcome

We propose an algebraic viewpoint of the problem of deformation quantization of the so called almost Poisson algebras, which are algebras with a commutative associative product and an antisymmetric bracket which is a bi-derivation but does not necessarily satisfy the Jacobi identity. From that viewpoint, the main result of the paper asserts that, by contrast with Poisson algebras, the only reasonable category of algebras in which almost Poisson algebras can be quantized is isomorphic to the category of almost Poisson algebras itself, and the trivial two-term quantization formula already gives a solution to the quantization problem., Comment: 11 pages, comments are welcome

We prove a conjecture of Chapoton from 2010 stating that the pre-Lie operad, as a Lie algebra in the symmetric monoidal category of linear species, is freely generated by the free operad on the species of cyclic Lie elements., Comment: 8 pages

Correlation function is defined and calculated for the punctual states of the fermion supersymmetric string (N=1), in its critical dimension D=10., Comment: 24 pages, two figures

This monograph provides an overview on the Maurer-Cartan methods in algebra, geometry, topology, and mathematical physics. It offers a conceptual, exhaustive and gentle treatment of the twisting procedure, which functorially creates new differential graded Lie algebras, associative algebras or operads (as well as their homotopy versions) from a Maurer-Cartan element. The twisting procedure for (homotopy) associative algebras or (homotopy) Lie algebras is described by means of the action of the biggest deformation gauge group ever considered. We give a criterion on quadratic operads for the existence of a meaningful twisting procedure of their associated categories of algebras. And, we introduce the twisting procedure for operads \`a la Willwacher using a new and simpler presentation, which provides us with a wide source of motivating examples related to graph homology, both recovering known graph complexes (due to Kontsevich) and introducing some new ones. This book starts with elementary surveys on gauge theory and deformation theory using differential graded Lie algebras in order to ease the way to the theory. It finishes with concise surveys on the fundamental theorem of deformation theory, higher Lie theory, rational homotopy theory, simplicial theory of homotopy algebras, and the Floer cohomology of Lagrangian submanifolds, to illustrate deep examples of applications., Comment: 183 pages, supersedes the very preliminary version arXiv:1810.02941, final author version before copyediting; will be published by Cambridge University Press & Assessment as 'Maurer-Cartan Methods in Deformation Theory: the twisting procedure' by Vladimir Dotsenko, Sergey Shadrin and Bruno Vallette

We introduce a new operad-like structure that we call a reconnectad; the ``input'' of an element of a reconnectad is a finite simple graph, rather than a finite set, and ``compositions'' of elements are performed according to the notion of the reconnected complement of a subgraph. The prototypical example of a reconnectad is given by the collection of toric varieties of graph associahedra of Carr and Devadoss, with the structure operations given by inclusions of orbits closures. We develop the general theory of reconnectads, and use it to study the ``wonderful reconnectad'' assembled from homology groups of complex toric varieties of graph associahedra., Comment: 44 pages, submitted version

We prove that if, for a nontrivial variety of non-associative algebras, every subalgebra of every free algebra is free and $I^2$ is an ideal whenever $I$ is an ideal, then this variety coincides with the variety of all Lie algebras., Comment: 15 pages, comments are welcome. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2205.05364

In this paper, we study Novikov algebras satisfying nontrivial identities. We show that a Novikov algebra over a field of zero characteristic that satisfies a nontrivial identity satisfies some unexpected "universal" identities, in particular, right associator nilpotence, and right nilpotence of the commutator ideal. This, in particular, implies that a Novikov algebra over a field of zero characteristic satisfies a nontrivial identity if and only if it is Lie-solvable. We also establish that any system of identities of Novikov algebras over a field of zero characteristic follows from finitely many of them, and that the same holds over any field for multilinear Novikov identities. Some analogous simpler statements are also proved for commutative differential algebras., Comment: 15 pages, to appear in Math. Z

All algebras of a certain type are said to form a Nielsen-Schreier variety if every subalgebra of a free algebra is free. This property has been perceived as extremely rare; in particular, only six Nielsen-Schreier varieties of algebras with one binary operation have been discovered in prior work on this topic. We propose an effective combinatorial criterion for the Nielsen-Schreier property in the case of algebras over a field of zero characteristic; in our approach, operads play a crucial role. Using this criterion, we show that the well known varieties of all pre-Lie algebras and of all Lie-admissible algebras are Nielsen-Schreier, and, quite surprisingly, that there are already infinitely many non-equivalent Nielsen-Schreier varieties of algebras with one binary operation and identities of degree four., Comment: 35 pages, to appear in IMRN

We resolve a ten year old open question of Loday of describing Koszul operads that act on the algebra of octonions. In fact, we obtain the answer by solving a more general classification problem: we find all Koszul operads among those encoding associator dependent algebras., Comment: 21 pages

In the classical Batalin--Vilkovisky formalism, the BV operator $\Delta$ is a differential operator of order two with respect to the commutative product. In the differential graded setting, it is known that if the BV operator is homotopically trivial, then there is a tree level cohomological field theory induced on the homology; this is a manifestation of the fact that the homotopy quotient of the operad of BV algebras by $\Delta$ is represented by the operad of hypercommutative algebras. In this paper, we study generalized Batalin--Vilkovisky algebras where the operator $\Delta$ is of the given finite order. In that case, we unravel a new interesting algebraic structure on the homology whenever $\Delta$ is homotopically trivial. We also suggest that the sequence of algebraic structures arising in the higher order formalism is a part of a "trinity" of remarkable mathematical objects, fitting the philosophy proposed by Arnold in the 1990s., Comment: v3: further minor changes (several formulas corrected, the explanation of acyclicity of a Koszul-type complex made more precise)

For a given symmetric quiver $Q$, we define a supercommutative quadratic algebra $\mathcal{A}_Q$ whose Poincar\'e series is related to the motivic generating function of $Q$ by a simple change of variables. The Koszul duality between supercommutative algebras and Lie superalgebras assigns to the algebra $\mathcal{A}_Q$ its Koszul dual Lie superalgebra $\mathfrak{g}_Q$. We prove that the motivic Donaldson-Thomas invariants of the quiver $Q$ may be computed using the Poincar\'e series of a certain Lie subalgebra of $\mathfrak{g}_Q$ that can be described, using an action of the first Weyl algebra on $\mathfrak{g}_Q$, as the kernel of the operator $\partial_t$. This gives a new proof of positivity for motivic Donaldson--Thomas invariants. In addition, we prove that the algebra $\mathcal{A}_Q$ is numerically Koszul for every symmetric quiver $Q$ and conjecture that it is in fact Koszul; we also prove this conjecture for quivers of a certain class., Comment: 25 pages, the main result on DT invariants of symmetric quivers is now not conditional on Koszulness

We obtain a new interpretation of the cohomological Hall algebra $\mathcal{H}_Q$ of a symmetric quiver $Q$ in the context of the theory of vertex algebras. Namely, we show that the graded dual of $\mathcal{H}_Q$ is naturally identified with the underlying vector space of the principal free vertex algebra associated to the Euler form of $Q$. Properties of that vertex algebra are shown to account for the key results about $\mathcal{H}_Q$. In particular, it has a natural structure of a vertex bialgebra, leading to a new interpretation of the product of $\mathcal{H}_Q$. Moreover, it is isomorphic to the universal enveloping vertex algebra of a certain vertex Lie algebra, which leads to a new interpretation of Donaldson--Thomas invariants of $Q$ (and, in particular, re-proves their positivity). Finally, it is possible to use that vertex algebra to give a new interpretation of CoHA modules made of cohomologies of non-commutative Hilbert schemes., Comment: 43 pages

The celebrated Diamond Lemma of Bergman gives an effectively verifiable criterion of uniqueness of normal forms for term rewriting in associative algebras. We present a new way to interpret and prove this result from the viewpoint of homotopical algebra. Our main result states that every multiplicative free resolution of an algebra with monomial relations gives rise to its own Diamond Lemma, so that Bergman's condition of "resolvable ambiguities" becomes the first non-trivial component of the Maurer--Cartan equation in the corresponding tangent complex. The same approach works for many other algebraic structures, emphasizing the relevance of computing multiplicative free resolutions of algebras with monomial relations., Comment: 28 pages, comments are welcome

We develop the deformation theory of cohomological field theories (CohFTs), which is done as a special case of a general deformation theory of morphisms of modular operads. This leads us to introduce two new natural extensions of the notion of a CohFT: homotopical (necessary to structure chain-level Gromov--Witten invariants) and quantum (with examples found in the works of Buryak--Rossi on integrable systems). We introduce a new version of Kontsevich's graph complex, enriched with tautological classes on the moduli spaces of stable curves. We use it to study a new universal deformation group which acts naturally on the moduli spaces of quantum homotopy CohFTs, by methods due to Merkulov--Willwacher. This group is shown to contain both the prounipotent Grothendieck--Teichm\"uller group and the Givental group., Comment: submitted version, 57 pages, abstract and introduction rewritten

We show that the celebrated operad of pre-Lie algebras is very rigid: it has no "non-obvious" degrees of freedom from either of the three points of view: deformations of maps to and from the "three graces of operad theory", homotopy automorphisms, and operadic twisting. Examining the latter, it is possible to answer two questions of Markl from 2005, including a Lie-theoretic version of the Deligne conjecture., Comment: 15 pages, final version, to appear in Proceedings of the AMS

In this paper, we study the C-enriched pre-Lie operad defined by Calaque and Willwacher for any Hopf cooperad C to produce conceptual constructions of the operads acting on various deformation complexes. Maps between Hopf cooperads lead to maps between the corresponding enriched pre-Lie operads; we prove criteria for the module action of the domain on the codomain to be free, on the left and on the right. In particular, this implies a new functorial Poincar\'e--Birkhoff--Witt type theorem for universal enveloping brace algebras of pre-Lie algebras., Comment: final version

We give explicit combinatorial descriptions of three Schur functors arising in the theory of pre-Lie algebras. The first of them leads to a functorial description of the underlying vector space of the universal enveloping pre-Lie algebra of a given Lie algebra, strengthening the PBW theorem of Segal. The two other Schur functors provide functorial descriptions of the underlying vector spaces of the universal multiplicative enveloping algebra and of the module of K\"ahler differentials of a given pre-Lie algebra. An important consequence of such descriptions is an interpretation of the cohomology of a pre-Lie algebra with coefficients in a module as a derived functor for the category of modules over the universal multiplicative enveloping algebra., Comment: 15 pages, substantially revised version including a general PBW type criterion for modules of K\"ahler differentials

Using methods of computer algebra, especially Gr\"obner bases for submodules of free modules over polynomial rings, we solve a classification problem in theory of algebraic operads: we show that the only nontrivial (possibly inhomogeneous) distributive law between the operad of Lie algebras and the operad of commutative associative algebras is given by the Livernet-Loday formula deforming the Poisson operad into the associative operad., Comment: 8 pages

Under the assumption that the product of two spin operators decomposes uniquely into the degenerate conformal fields $\{\Phi_{n',n}\}$, the general expression for the correlation function of four spins is defined for the $q$ states Potts model with $q$ taking general values in the interval $1 \leq q \leq 4$. The limit of $q \rightarrow 1$ is considered in detail and the four spins function is obtained for the percolation model., Comment: 25 pages, 4 figures, clarifying comments are added in the abstract, introduction, and in the section 2

We show that a finite dimensional monomial algebra satisfies the finite generation conditions of Snashall-Solberg for Hochschild cohomology if and only if it is Gorenstein. This gives, in the case of monomial algebras, the converse to a theorem of Erdmann-Holloway-Snashall-Solberg-Taillefer. We also give a necessary and sufficient combinatorial criterion for finite generation., Comment: 38 pages, comments are welcome

We use Giraudo's construction of combinatorial operads from monoids to offer a conceptual explanation of the origins of Hoffbeck's path sequences of shuffle trees, and use it to define new monomial orders of shuffle trees. One such order is utilised to exhibit a quadratic Gr\"obner basis of the Poisson operad., Comment: 5 pages

Using the categorical approach to Poincar\'e-Birkhoff-Witt type theorems from our previous work with Tamaroff, we prove three such theorems: for universal enveloping Rota-Baxter algebras of tridendriform algebras, for universal enveloping Rota--Baxter Lie algebras of post-Lie algebras, and for universal enveloping tridendriform algebras of post-Lie algebras. Similar results, though without functoriality of the PBW isomorphisms, were recently obtained by Gubarev. Our methods are completely different and mainly rely on methods of rewriting theory for shuffle operads., Comment: 8 pages, comments are welcome

We show that the integral cohomology rings of the moduli spaces of stable rational marked curves are Koszul. This answers an open question of Manin. Using the machinery of Koszul spaces developed by Berglund, we compute the rational homotopy Lie algebras of those spaces, and obtain some estimates for Betti numbers of their free loop spaces in case of torsion coefficients. We also prove and conjecture some generalisations of our main result., Comment: 26 pages, much more detailed version, (most) misprints corrected

This paper provides a conceptual study of the twisting procedure, which amounts to create functorially new differential graded Lie algebras, associative algebras or operads (as well as their homotopy versions) from a Maurer--Cartan element. On the way, we settle the integration theory of complete pre-Lie algebras in order to describe this twisting procedure in terms of gauge group action. We give a criterion on quadratic operads for the existence of a meaningful twisting procedure of their associated categories of (homotopy) algebras. We also give a new presentation of the twisting procedure for operads \`a la Willwacher and we perform new homology computations of graph complexes., Comment: New format (short monography), 93 pages, minor corrections, submitted version

We determine what appears to be the bare-bones categorical framework for Poincar\'e-Birkhoff-Witt type theorems about universal enveloping algebras of various algebraic structures. Our language is that of endofunctors; we establish that a natural transformation of monads enjoys a Poincar\'e-Birkhoff-Witt property only if that transformation makes its codomain a free right module over its domain. We conclude with a number of applications to show how this unified approach proves various old and new Poincar\'e-Birkhoff-Witt type theorems. In particular, we prove a PBW type result for universal enveloping dendriform algebras of pre-Lie algebras, answering a question of Loday., Comment: 18 pages, final version before submission for peer review, to appear in IMRN

We relate the operad FMan controlling the algebraic structure on the tangent sheaf of an $F$-manifold (weak Frobenius manifold) defined by Hertling and Manin to the operad PreLie of pre-Lie algebras: for the filtration of PreLie by powers of the ideal generated by the Lie bracket, the associated graded object is FMan., Comment: 7 pages, comments are welcome

We define the $m$th Veronese power of a weight graded operad $\mathcal{P}$ to be its suboperad $\mathcal{P}^{[m]}$ generated by operations of weight $m$. It turns out that, unlike Veronese powers of associative algebras, homological properties of operads are, in general, not improved by this construction. However, under some technical conditions, Veronese powers of quadratic Koszul operads are meaningful in the context of the Koszul duality theory. Indeed, we show that in many important cases the operads $\mathcal{P}^{[m]}$ are related by Koszul duality to operads describing strongly homotopy algebras with only one nontrivial operation. Our theory has immediate applications to objects as Lie $k$-algebras and Lie triple systems. In the case of Lie $k$-algebras, we also discuss a similarly looking ungraded construction which is frequently used in the literature. We establish that the corresponding operad does not possess good homotopy properties, and that it leads to a very simple example of a non-Koszul quadratic operad for which the Ginzburg--Kapranov power series test is inconclusive., Comment: 21 pages, comments are welcome

We establish a combinatorial model for the Boardman--Vogt tensor product of several absolutely free operads, that is free symmetric operads that are also free as $\mathbb{S}$-modules. Our results imply that such a tensor product is always a free $\mathbb{S}$-module, in contrast with the results of Kock and Bremner--Madariaga on hidden commutativity for the Boardman--Vogt tensor square of the operad of non-unital associative algebras., Comment: 15 pages, comments are welcome

By using the Coulomb gas technics we calculate the four-spin correlation function in the percolation $q\rightarrow 1$ limit of the Potts model. It is known that the four-point functions define the actual fusion rules of a particular model. In this respect, we find that fusion of two spins, of dimension $\Delta_{\sigma}=\frac{5}{96}$, produce a new channel, in the 4-point function, which is due to the operator with dimension $\Delta=5/8$., Comment: 45 pages, no figures, Abstract and Introduction extended, agrees with the journal version