Lie graph homology model for $\mathfrak{grt}_1$

Abstract: This paper develops a new chain model for the commutative graph complex $\mathsf{GC}_2$ which takes Lie graph homology as an input. Our main technical result is the identification of a large contractible complex of (certain) tadpoles and higher genus vertices of the Feynman transform of Lie graph homology. Using this result we identify the anti-invarints of Lie graph homology in genus $2$ with relations between bracketings of conjectural generators of $\mathfrak{grt}_1$ in depth 2 modulo depth 3, unifying two a priori disparate appearances of the space of modular cusp forms in the study of graph homology.