Equivariant Cohomology of Configuration Spaces Mod 2

DOI10.1007/978-3-030-84138-6MaRDI QIDQ4957803zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Pavle V. M. Blagojević, Wolfgang Lück, Günter M. Ziegler, F. R. Cohen, Michael C. Crabb

Publication date 9 September 2021

Published in Lecture Notes in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.12350

zbMATH Keywords

Sylow subgroupsconfiguration spacesequivariant cohomologyregular embeddingsPtolemaic epicycles

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Arrangements of points, flats, hyperplanes (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C35) Equivariant homology and cohomology in algebraic topology (55N91) Discriminantal varieties and configuration spaces in algebraic topology (55R80) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to algebraic topology (55-02)

Abstract: The equivariant cohomology of the classical configuration space $F(mathbb{R}^d,n)$ has been been of great interest and has been studied intensively starting with the classical papers by Artin (1925/1947) on the theory of braids, by Fox and Neuwirth (1962), Fadell and Neuwirth (1962), and Arnol'd (1969). We give a brief treatment of the subject from the beginnings to recent developments. However, we focus on the mod 2 equivariant cohomology algebras of the classical configuration space $F(mathbb{R}^d,n)$, as described in an influential paper by Hung (1990). We show with a new, detailed proof that his main result is correct, but that the arguments that were given by Hung on the way to his result are not, as are some of the intermediate results in his paper. This invalidates a paper by three of the present authors, Blagojevi'c, L"uck & Ziegler (2016), who used a claimed intermediate result from Hung (1990) in order to derive lower bounds for the existence of $k$-regular and $ell$-skew embeddings. Using our new proof for Hung's main result, we get new lower bounds for existence of highly regular embeddings: Some of them agree with the previously claimed bounds, some are weaker.

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