Configuration spaces on a wedge of spheres and Hochschild-Pirashvili homology (Q6606901)

The authors study the compactly supported rational cohomology of configuration spaces of \(n\) points in wedges of spheres, equipped with an action of the symmetric group and of the group of outer automorphisms of the free group.\N\NThe authors show that these cohomology representations form a polynomial functor, whose composition factors are completely computed for \(n\leq 10\).\N\NThe compactly supported cohomology of these configuration spaces is related to that of the moduli space \(\mathcal M_{2,n}\) of genus \(2\) curves with \(n\) markings. The relationship is formulated in [\textit{C. Bibby} et al., ``Homology representations of compactified configurations on graphs applied to $\mathcal{M}_{2,n}$'', Preprint, \url{arXiv:2109.03302}].\N\NIndeed, with their computations, the authors recover the \(\mathfrak S_n\)-character of weight 0 cohomology groups \(\operatorname{gr}^W_0H^*_c(\mathcal M_{2,n};\mathbb Q),\) for \(n\leq 10\), and provide a new lower bound for the equivariant character.