Configuration spaces, graded spaces, and polysymmetric functions

arXiv2207.04529MaRDI QIDQ6404535FDOQ6404535

Publication date: 10 July 2022

Abstract: This paper presents techniques for computing motivic measures of configuration spaces when points of the base space are weighted. This generality allows for a more flexible notion of configuration space which can be useful in applications, and subsumes some disparate problems that were previously given ad-hoc treatments. The space of effective zero-cycles of given weight generalizes the ordinary symmetric product and has a canonical stratification by splitting type. We prove formulas for the motivic measures of open and closed strata of the space of zero-cycles of given weight on a quasiprojective variety with an arbitrary grading by natural numbers. This lets us compute, among other things, the motive of the space of geometrically irreducible hypersurfaces in projective space. We introduce a general form of plethysm suitable for the graded situation which makes use of a new generalization of symmetric functions. Our main formula solves a motivic formulation of the inverse problem to P'olya enumeration.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symmetric functions and generalizations (05E05) (Equivariant) Chow groups and rings; motives (14C15) Intersection theory, characteristic classes, intersection multiplicities in algebraic geometry (14C17) (J)-homomorphism, Adams operations (19L20) Symmetric products and cyclic products in algebraic topology (55S15)

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