Homological stability for moduli spaces of disconnected submanifolds. I (Q1983545): Difference between revisions

This paper extends classical work concerning homological stability of configuration spaces of points (in an open, connected manifold) by \textit{G. Segal} [Invent. Math. 21, 213--221 (1973; Zbl 0267.55020); Acta Math. 143, 39--72 (1979; Zbl 0427.55006)] and \textit{D. McDuff} [Topology 14, 91--107 (1975; Zbl 0296.57001)] to moduli spaces of submanifolds of higher dimension, where stability is with respect to the number of components having a fixed diffeomorphism type and isotopy class. More concretely, the main result of the paper can be stated as follows. Let \(P\) be a closed manifold and let \(M\) be the interior of a closed connected manifold. Choose an open subgroup \(G < \text{Diff}(P)\), where \(\text{Diff}(P)\) denotes the group of diffeomorphisms of \(P\), endowed with the Whitney topology. For \(n \geq 1\), consider the space of embeddings of \(n\) disjoint copies of \(P\) into \(M\), denoted \(\text{Emb}(nP,M)\), and let \(C_{nP}(M;G) = \text{Emb}(nP,M) / (G \wr \Sigma_n)\). Adding another copy of \(P\) ``close to the boundary'' of \(\overline{M}\) can be formalized to produce a well-defined map \(C_{nP}(M;G) \to C_{(n+1)P}(M;G)\). Then, provided that \(\text{dim}(P) \leq \frac{1}{2}(\text{dim}(M)-3)\), this map induces split-injections on homology in all degrees and isomorphisms up to degree \(\frac{n}{2}\). The author points out that the problem to identify the resulting stable homology is open unless \(P\) is a point. He also mentions that in a companion paper [``Stability for moduli spaces of manifolds with conical singularities'', Preprint, \url{arXiv:1807.07558}], the concepts from the paper under review are further generalized to submanifolds equipped with labels in a bundle over the embedding space, from which corollaries for the stability of diffeomorphism groups of manifolds are deduced.