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The Geometry and Fundamental Group of Permutation Products and Fat Diagonals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Sadok Kallel  and
Walid Taamallah
Sadok Kallel
Affiliation:
Laboratoire Painlevé, Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille, France, and American University of Sharjah, UAE, e-mail: sadok.kallel@math.univ-lille1.fr
Walid Taamallah
Affiliation:
Facultédes Sciences de Tunis, Department of Mathematics, University of Tunis, El Manar, Tunisia, e-mail: walid.taamallah@gmail.com
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Permutation products and their various “fat diagonal” subspaces are studied from the topological and geometric points of view. We describe in detail the stabilizer and orbit stratifications related to the permutation action, producing a sharp upper bound for its depth and then paying particular attention to the geometry of the diagonal stratum. We exhibit an expression for the fundamental group of any permutation product of a connected space $X$ having the homotopy type of a CW complex in terms of ${{\pi }_{1}}(X)$ and ${{H}_{1}}(X;\,\mathbb{Z})$. We then prove that the fundamental group of the configuration space of $n$-points on $X$, of which multiplicities do not exceed $n/2$, coincides with ${{H}_{1}}(X;\,\mathbb{Z})$. Further results consist in giving conditions for when fat diagonal subspaces of manifolds can be manifolds again. Various examples and homological calculations are included.

Keywords

14F3557F80symmetric productsfundamental grouporbit stratification
Type
Research Article
Information
Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 65 , Issue 3 , 01 June 2013 , pp. 575 - 599
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 2013

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