The mod-2 cohomology rings of symmetric groups.

DOI10.1112/JTOPOL/JTR031MaRDI QIDQ3225614zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Chad Giusti, Paolo Salvatore, Dev P. Sinha

Publication date 22 March 2012

Published in Journal of Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0909.3292

zbMATH Keywords

classifying spacessymmetric groupsSteenrod algebraHopf rings

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symmetric groups (20B30) Classifying spaces of groups and (H)-spaces in algebraic topology (55R35) Cohomology of groups (20J06) Steenrod algebra (55S10)

Abstract: We compute the mod-2 cohomology of the collection of all symmetric groups as a Hopf ring, where the second product is the transfer product of Strickland and Turner. We first give examples of related Hopf rings from invariant theory and representation theory. In addition to a Hopf ring presentation, we give geometric cocycle representatives and explicitly determine the structure as an algebra over the Steenrod algebra. All calculations are explicit, with an additive basis which has a clean graphical representation. We also briefly develop related Hopf ring structures on rings of symmetric invariants and end with a generating set consisting of Stiefel-Whitney classes of regular representations v2. Added new results on varieties which represent the cocycles, a graphical representation of the additive basis, and on the Steenrod algebra action. v3. Included a full treatment of invariant theoretic Hopf rings, refined the definition of representing varieties, and corrected and clarified references.

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