A note on Penner's cocycle on the fatgraph complex
arXiv:2005.03414
Abstract
We study a 1-cocycle on the fatgraph complex of a punctured surface introduced by Penner. We present an explicit cobounding cochain for this cocycle, whose formula involves a summation over trivalent vertices of a trivalent fatgraph spine. In a similar fashion, we express the symplectic form of the underlying surface of a given fatgraph spine.
12 pages, 8 figures