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Operads of genus zero curves and the Grothendieck–Teichmüller group

### Pedro Boavida de Brito, Geoffroy Horel and Marcy Robertson

Geometry & Topology 23 (2019) 299–346
##### Abstract

We show that the group of homotopy automorphisms of the profinite completion of the genus zero surface operad is isomorphic to the (profinite) Grothendieck–Teichmüller group. Using a result of Drummond-Cole, we deduce that the Grothendieck–Teichmüller group acts nontrivially on ${\stackrel{̄}{\mathsc{ℳ}}}_{0,\bullet +1}$, the operad of stable curves of genus zero. As a second application, we give an alternative proof that the framed little $2$–disks operad is formal.

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##### Keywords
infinity operads, Grothendieck–Teichmüller group, absolute Galois group, moduli space of curves
##### Mathematical Subject Classification 2010
Primary: 18D50, 14G32, 32G15, 55P48, 55U35