Fox-Neuwirth cell structures and the cohomology of symmetric groups.

zbMATH Open1282.20058arXiv1110.4137MaRDI QIDQ4914739FDOQ4914739

Authors: Chad Giusti, Dev P. Sinha 

Publication date: 15 April 2013

Abstract: We use the Fox-Neuwirth cell structure for one-point compactifications of configuration spaces as the starting point for understanding our recent calculation of the mod-two cohomology of symmetric groups. We then use that calculation to give short proofs of classical results on this cohomology due to Nakaoka and to Madsen. v2. Added references, expanded exposition on the cochain model and a mathematical correction in the final section. v3. Added references.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1110.4137

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zbMATH Keywords

configuration spacescohomology of symmetric groupsFox-Neuwirth cell structures

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Grassmannians, Schubert varieties, flag manifolds (14M15) Symmetric groups (20B30) Classifying spaces of groups and (H)-spaces in algebraic topology (55R35) Geometric structures on manifolds of high or arbitrary dimension (57N16) Cohomology of groups (20J06)

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• Cohomology rings of extended powers and of free infinite loop spaces
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