Subdivisional spaces and graph braid groups
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Publication:6289891
DOI10.25537/DM.2019V24.1513-1583arXiv1708.02351MaRDI QIDQ6289891FDOQ6289891
Authors: Byunghee An, Gabriel C. Drummond-Cole, Ben Knudsen 
Publication date: 7 August 2017
Abstract: We study the problem of computing the homology of the configuration spaces of a finite cell complex . We proceed by viewing , together with its subdivisions, as a subdivisional space--a kind of diagram object in a category of cell complexes. After developing a version of Morse theory for subdivisional spaces, we decompose and show that the homology of the configuration spaces of is computed by the derived tensor product of the Morse complexes of the pieces of the decomposition, an analogue of the monoidal excision property of factorization homology. Applying this theory to the configuration spaces of a graph, we recover a cellular chain model due to '{S}wik{a}tkowski. Our method of deriving this model enhances it with various convenient functorialities, exact sequences, and module structures, which we exploit in numerous computations, old and new.
Planar graphs; geometric and topological aspects of graph theory (05C10) Graphs and abstract algebra (groups, rings, fields, etc.) (05C25) Braid groups; Artin groups (20F36) Discriminantal varieties and configuration spaces in algebraic topology (55R80)
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