Pachner complex model for Zwiebach's moduli space

Let Σ\Sigma be a surface of genus hh with nn boundary circles, whose boundary circles are triangulated into k1,,knk_1,\ldots,k_n intervals. Pachner-complex conjecture. There exists a CW complex Ξ(Σ,{ki})\Xi(\Sigma,\{k_i\}), called the Pachner complex, such that its vertices correspond to admissible triangulations of Σ\Sigma inducing the prescribed boundary triangulations; its edges correspond to Pachner moves, namely flips or stellar subdivisions and aggregations; it is homotopy equivalent to Zwiebach's moduli space M~h,n\widetilde{\mathcal{M}}_{h,n}; for h=0h=0, it is homotopy equivalent to the component E2fr(n1)E_2^{\mathrm{fr}}(n-1) of the framed little disk operad, with an induced homology isomorphism

f ⁣:H(Ξ)H(E2fr(n1));f_*\colon H_\bullet(\Xi)\longrightarrow H_\bullet(E_2^{\mathrm{fr}}(n-1));

compatible with gluing of cobordisms or operadic composition in E2frE_2^{\mathrm{fr}}; its faces correspond to admissible polygonal decompositions into polygons with at least three sides, equipped with a linear chart and a configuration chamber of at least zero floating points, with subfaces described locally by secondary-polytope combinatorics; and, for a cylinder with k1=k2=:kk_1=k_2=:k, the BV cycle cΔk\mathsf{c}_\Delta^k represents the generator of

H1(Ξ,Z)fH1(E2fr(1),Z)=Z.H_1(\Xi,\mathbb{Z})\stackrel{f_*}{\simeq}H_1(E_2^{\mathrm{fr}}(1),\mathbb{Z})=\mathbb{Z}.

This is the proposed ideal combinatorial model of the moduli spaces governing the two-dimensional higher topological quantum field theory. The source does not state a resolution, and the notion of admissibility is explicitly left as a black box.

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Justin Beck, Andrey Losev and Pavel Mnev, “Combinatorial 2d higher topological quantum field theory from a local cyclic A_algebra”, arXiv:2402.04468 (2024).

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