International Mathematics Research Notices Advance Access published online on September 25, 2009
International Mathematics Research Notices, doi:10.1093/imrn/rnp155
On the (Ir)rationality of Kontsevich Weights
Department of Mathematics, ETH Zurich, Rämistrasse 101, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
Correspondence: Correspondence to be sent to: thomas.willwacher{at}math.ethz.ch
We compute the weight of a particular Kontsevich graph in deformation quantization. Up to rationals, the result is
(3)2/
6. Hence, it is probably not true that all Kontsevich weights are rational.