15 June 2015 FI-modules and stability for representations of symmetric groups
Thomas Church, Jordan S. Ellenberg, Benson Farb
Duke Math. J. 164(9): 1833-1910 (15 June 2015). DOI: 10.1215/00127094-3120274

Abstract

In this paper we introduce and develop the theory of FI-modules. We apply this theory to obtain new theorems about:

• the cohomology of the configuration space of n distinct ordered points on an arbitrary (connected, oriented) manifold;

• the diagonal coinvariant algebra on r sets of n variables;

• the cohomology and tautological ring of the moduli space of n -pointed curves;

• the space of polynomials on rank varieties of n × n matrices;

• the subalgebra of the cohomology of the genus n Torelli group generated by H 1 ;

and more. The symmetric group S n acts on each of these vector spaces. In most cases almost nothing is known about the characters of these representations, or even their dimensions. We prove that in each fixed degree the character is given, for n large enough, by a polynomial in the cycle-counting functions that is independent of n . In particular, the dimension is eventually a polynomial in n . In this framework, representation stability (in the sense of Church–Farb) for a sequence of S n -representations is converted to a finite generation property for a single FI-module.

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Thomas Church. Jordan S. Ellenberg. Benson Farb. "FI-modules and stability for representations of symmetric groups." Duke Math. J. 164 (9) 1833 - 1910, 15 June 2015. https://doi.org/10.1215/00127094-3120274

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Received: 14 July 2013; Revised: 5 September 2014; Published: 15 June 2015
First available in Project Euclid: 15 June 2015

zbMATH: 1339.55004
MathSciNet: MR3357185
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1215/00127094-3120274

Subjects:
Primary: 55N25
Secondary: 05E10 , 20J06

Keywords: FI-modules , representations , symmetric groups

Rights: Copyright © 2015 Duke University Press

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