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The real vector space of non-oriented graphs is known to carry a differential graded Lie algebra structure. Cocycles in the Kontsevich graph complex, expressed using formal sums of graphs on n vertices and 2n — 2 edges, induce - under the orientation mapping - infinitesimal symmetries of classical Poisson structures on arbitrary finite-dimensional affine real manifolds. Willwacher has stated the existence of a nontrivial cocycle that contains the (2ℓ+1)-wheel graph with a nonzero coefficient at every ℓ∈ℕ. We present detailed calculations of the differential of graphs; for the tetrahedron and pentagon-wheel cocycles, consisting at ℓ = 1 and ℓ = 2 of one and two graphs respectively, the cocycle condition d(γ) = 0 is verified by hand. For the next, heptagon-wheel cocycle (known to exist at ℓ = 3), we provide an explicit representative: it consists of 46 graphs on 8 vertices and 14 edges.
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Buring, R., Kiselev, A.V. & Rutten, N.J. The heptagon-wheel cocycle in the Kontsevich graph complex. J Nonlinear Math Phys 24 (Suppl 1), 157–173 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1080/14029251.2017.1418060
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