Hidden structures behind ambient symmetries of the Maurer-Cartan equation

For every differential graded Lie algebra g one can define two different group actions on the Maurer-Cartan elements: the ubiquitous gauge action and the action of Lie_∞-isotopies of g, which we call the ambient action. In this note, we explain how the assertion of gauge triviality of a homologically trivial ambient action relates to the calculus of dendriform, Zinbiel, and Rota-Baxter algebras, and to Eulerian idempotents. In particular, we exhibit new relationships between these algebraic structures and the operad of rational functions defined by Loday.