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Volume 29, Issue 2

# A direct computation of the cohomology of the braces operad

Vasily Dolgushev
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• Department of Mathematics, Temple University, Wachman Hall , Rm. 638, 1805 N. Broad St., Philadelphia, PA, 19122, USA
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Published Online: 2016-06-30 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/forum-2016-0123

## Abstract

We give a self-contained and purely combinatorial proof of the well-known fact that the cohomology of the braces operad is the operad $\mathrm{𝖦𝖾𝗋}$ governing Gerstenhaber algebras.

MSC 2010: 18D50; 18G55; 55P10

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Published Online: 2016-06-30

Published in Print: 2017-03-01

Funding Source: National Science Foundation

Award identifier / Grant number: DMS-1161867

Award identifier / Grant number: DMS-1501001

Award identifier / Grant number: 200021_150012

Award identifier / Grant number: SwissMAP NCCR

Vasily Dolgushev has been supported partially by NSF grants DMS-1161867 and DMS-1501001 and Thomas Willwacher has been supported partially by the Swiss National Science foundation, grant 200021_150012, and the SwissMAP NCCR funded by the Swiss National Science foundation.

Citation Information: Forum Mathematicum, Volume 29, Issue 2, Pages 465–488, ISSN (Online) 1435-5337, ISSN (Print) 0933-7741,

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