Configurations and parallelograms associated to centers of mass

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Publication date 9 April 2008

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0903.4867

zbMATH Keywords

localizationdouble loop space of a sphere

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Loop spaces (55P35) Homology with local coefficients, equivariant cohomology (55N25) Discriminantal varieties and configuration spaces in algebraic topology (55R80) Homotopy groups of spheres (55Q40)

Abstract: The purpose of this article is to 1. define M(t,k) the t-fold center of mass arrangement for k points in the plane, 2. give elementary properties of M(t,k) and 3. give consequences concerning the space M(2,k) of k distinct points in the plane, no four of which are the vertices of a parallelogram. The main result proven in this article is that the classical unordered configuration of k points in the plane is not a retract up to homotopy of the space of k unordered distinct points in the plane, no four of which are the vertices of a parallelogram. The proof below is homotopy theoretic without an explicit computation of the homology of these spaces. In addition, a second, speculative part of this article arises from the failure of these methods in the case of odd primes p. This failure gives rise to a candidate for the localization at odd primes p of the double loop space of an odd sphere obtained from the p-fold center of mass arrangement. Potential consequences are listed.

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