Edge stabilization in the homology of graph braid groups

DOI10.2140/GT.2020.24.421zbMATH Open1481.20129arXiv1806.05585OpenAlexW2807812907MaRDI QIDQ2177708FDOQ2177708

Authors: Byunghee An, Gabriel C. Drummond-Cole, Ben Knudsen 

Publication date: 6 May 2020

Published in: Geometry \& Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We introduce a novel type of stabilization map on the configuration spaces of a graph, which increases the number of particles occupying an edge. There is an induced action on homology by the polynomial ring generated by the set of edges, and we show that this homology module is finitely generated. An analogue of classical homological and representation stability for manifolds, this result implies eventual polynomial growth of Betti numbers. We calculate the exact degree of this polynomial, in particular verifying an upper bound conjectured by Ramos. Because the action arises from a family of continuous maps, it lifts to an action at the level of singular chains, which contains strictly more information than the homology level action. We show that the resulting differential graded module is almost never formal over the ring of edges.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.05585

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zbMATH Keywords

graphsconfiguration spacesconnectivityhomological stabilitybraid groupsgrowth of Betti numbers

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Connectivity (05C40) Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36) Geometric group theory (20F65) Homological methods in group theory (20J05) Discriminantal varieties and configuration spaces in algebraic topology (55R80)

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