Twisted homological stability for configuration spaces (Q721489)

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Twisted homological stability for configuration spaces
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    Twisted homological stability for configuration spaces (English)
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    19 July 2018
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    Let \(M\) be an open, connected manifold with \(\mathrm{dim}(M)\geq 2\) and let \(X\) be a path-connected space. The configuration space of \(n\) unordered points in \(M\) with labels in \(X\) is \(C_n(M,X):= (\mathrm{Emb}(n,M) \times X^n)/\Sigma_n\), where \(\mathrm{Emb}(n,M)\) is the subspace of \(M^n\) such that no two points coincide. There is a well-defined stabilisation map \(C_n(M,X)\to C_{n+1}(M,X)\) inducing an isomorphism on integral homology in degrees \(\leq \frac{n}{2}\), and a split-injective map on homology in all degrees. This phenomenon is called homologically stable with coefficients in \(\mathbb{Z}\), studied by McDuff, Segal, et al. The main result of the paper under review is to show that \(C_n(M,X)\) is homologically stable with twisted coefficients. More precisely, a twisted coefficient system of degree \(d\) for the sequence \(\{C_n(M,X)\}\) is defined to be a functor from a certain category \(\mathcal{B}(M,X)\) to the category \(Ab\) of abelian groups satisfying a certain finiteness condition. It includes a \(\pi_1(C_n(M,X))\)-module \(T_n\) for each \(n\), and that the stabilisation map \(C_n(M,X)\to C_{n+1}(M,X)\) induces a natural map \[ \phi: H_*(C_n(M,X);T_n)\to H_*(C_{n+1}(M,X);T_{n+1}) \] The author of the paper under review shows that the map \(\phi\) is an isomorphism in degrees \(\leq \frac{n-d}{2}\) and is split-injective in all degrees.
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    configuration space
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    homological stability
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    polynomial twisted coefficients
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