Arrangements of symmetric products of spaces
Abstract
Using the topological technique of diagrams of spaces, we calculate the homology of the union and the complement of finite arrangements of subspaces of the form in symmetric products where . As an application we include a computation of the homology of the homotopy end space of the open manifold , where is a Riemann surface of genus punctured at points, a problem which was originally motivated by the study of commutative -groups.
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@article{arxiv.math/0306399,
title = {Arrangements of symmetric products of spaces},
author = {Pavle Blagojevic and Vladimir Grujic and Rade Zivaljevic},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0306399},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
This is an updated version of the paper. In this version some results (Proposition 1.7., Theorem 1.8, Theorem 1.9, Theorem 1.11) are now reformulated in the greater generality (over integer coefficients). Moreover, we now interpret Theorems 1.8 and 1.11 as a generalization of classical Steenrod's theorem to the case symmetric products of (simple) diagrams of spaces