We will give a more precise statement of the proposition below.

\nn{for now, we just sketch the proof.}

\def\mapinf{\Maps_\infty}

The usual Deligne conjecture \nn{need refs} gives a map

\[

	C_*(LD_k)\otimes \overbrace{Hoch^*(C, C)\otimes\cdots\otimes Hoch^*(C, C)}^{\text{$k$ copies}}

			\to  Hoch^*(C, C) .

\]

Here $LD_k$ is the $k$-th space of the little disks operad, and $Hoch^*(C, C)$ denotes Hochschild

cochains.

The little disks operad is homotopy equivalent to the fat graph operad

\nn{need ref; and need to restrict which fat graphs}, and Hochschild cochains are homotopy equivalent to $A_\infty$ endomorphisms

of the blob complex of the interval.

\nn{need to make sure we prove this above}.

So the 1-dimensional Deligne conjecture can be restated as

\begin{eqnarray*}

	C_*(FG_k)\otimes \mapinf(\bc^C_*(I), \bc^C_*(I))\otimes\cdots

	\otimes \mapinf(\bc^C_*(I), \bc^C_*(I)) & \\

	  & \hspace{-5em} \to  \mapinf(\bc^C_*(I), \bc^C_*(I)) .

\end{eqnarray*}

See Figure \ref{delfig1}.

\begin{figure}[!ht]

$$\mathfig{.9}{tempkw/delfig1}$$

\caption{A fat graph}\label{delfig1}\end{figure}

We can think of a fat graph as encoding a sequence of surgeries, starting at the bottommost interval

of Figure \ref{delfig1} and ending at the topmost interval.

The surgeries correspond to the $k$ bigon-shaped ``holes" in the fat graph.

We remove the bottom interval of the bigon and replace it with the top interval.

To map this topological operation to an algebraic one, we need, for each hole, element of

$\mapinf(\bc^C_*(I_{\text{bottom}}), \bc^C_*(I_{\text{top}}))$.

So for each fixed fat graph we have a map

\[

	 \mapinf(\bc^C_*(I), \bc^C_*(I))\otimes\cdots

	\otimes \mapinf(\bc^C_*(I), \bc^C_*(I))  \to  \mapinf(\bc^C_*(I), \bc^C_*(I)) .

\]

If we deform the fat graph, corresponding to a 1-chain in $C_*(FG_k)$, we get a homotopy

between the maps associated to the endpoints of the 1-chain.

Similarly, higher-dimensional chains in $C_*(FG_k)$ give rise to higher homotopies.

It should now be clear how to generalize this to higher dimensions.

In the sequence-of-surgeries description above, we never used the fact that the manifolds

involved were 1-dimensional.

Thus we can define a $n$-dimensional fat graph to sequence of general surgeries

on an $n$-manifold.

More specifically, \nn{...}

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Figure \ref{delfig2}

\begin{figure}[!ht]

$$\mathfig{.9}{tempkw/delfig2}$$

\caption{A fat graph}\label{delfig2}\end{figure}

\begin{eqnarray*}

	C_*(FG^n_{\overline{M}, \overline{N}})\otimes \mapinf(\bc_*(M_0), \bc_*(N_0))\otimes\cdots\otimes 

\mapinf(\bc_*(M_{k-1}), \bc_*(N_{k-1})) & \\

	& \hspace{-5em}\to  \mapinf(\bc_*(M_k), \bc_*(N_k))

\end{eqnarray*}

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