Moduli spaces of punctured Poincaré disks

<p style="text-align:justify;"> The Tamari lattice and the associahedron provide methods of measuring associativity on a line. The real moduli space of marked curves captures the space of such associativity. We consider a natural generalization by considering the moduli space of mar...

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Main Authors: Fehrman, B, Devadoss, S, Heath, T, Vashist, A
Format: Book section
Published: Springer 2012
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Summary:<p style="text-align:justify;"> The Tamari lattice and the associahedron provide methods of measuring associativity on a line. The real moduli space of marked curves captures the space of such associativity. We consider a natural generalization by considering the moduli space of marked particles on the Poincaré disk, extending Tamari’s notion of associativity based on nesting. A geometric and combinatorial construction of this space is provided, which appears in Kontsevich’s deformation quantization, Voronov’s swiss-cheese operad, and Kajiura and Stasheff’s open-closed string theory. </p>