Kontsevich–Soibelman cell decomposition conjecture for the Fulton–MacPherson operad

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For n2n\ge 2, let FM2(n)FM_2(n) be the Fulton–MacPherson space, let MT(n)MT(n) be the set of isomorphism classes of meta-trees with nn tails, and let PP be the dg-operad whose standard basis is indexed by meta-trees. For a meta-tree TMT(n){\bf T}\in MT(n), write σT\sigma_{\bf T} for the corresponding cell, and let Chains(σT)(FM2)Chains_{(\sigma_{\bf T})}(FM_2) denote the chain subcomplex of Chains(FM2)Chains(FM_2) formed by kk-linear combinations of these cells. Kontsevich–Soibelman's cell decomposition conjecture. There is a piecewise algebraic cell decomposition of the spaces FM2(n)FM_2(n), with cells σT\sigma_{\bf T} labeled by MT(n)MT(n), such that the labeling is SnS_n-equivariant, operadic composition of cells is again a cell, there is a morphism of dg-operads

Chains(σT)(FM2)PChains_{(\sigma_{\bf T})}(FM_2)\to P

that maps every cell, up to sign, to the corresponding element of the standard basis of PP, and for every n2n\ge 2 the decomposition is regular, meaning that the closure of every cell is homeomorphic to a closed ball. The source says that this conjecture implies Deligne's conjecture; it gives no resolution status.

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Maxim Kontsevich and Yan Soibelman, “Deformations of algebras over operads and Deligne's conjecture”, arXiv:math/0001151 (2000).

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