Stable cohomology of graph complexes

Abstract

We study three graph complexes related to the higher genus Grothendieck-Teichmüller Lie algebra and diffeomorphism groups of manifolds. We show how the cohomology of these graph complexes is related, and we compute the cohomology as the genus g tends to ∞. As a byproduct, we find that the Malcev completion of the genus g mapping class group relative to the symplectic group is Koszul in the stable limit (partially answering a question of Hain). Moreover, we obtain that any elliptic associator gives a solution to the elliptic Kashiwara-Vergne problem.