nLab modular operad

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Idea

A modular operad is an operad that has the kind of extra structure which is exhibited by the operad whose nn-ary operations are Riemann surfaces with (n+1)(n+1)-punctures, and whose composition is sewing of such surfaces. Every modular operad has a structure of a cyclic operad and also some additional structure.

Motivations

  • 2d TQFT
  • constructing graph complexes of Kontsevich as Feynman transforms of suitable twisted modular operad?s

References

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