Group actions on arrangements of linear subspaces and applications to configuration spaces

Transactions of the American Mathematical Society

Volumn 349, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1389-1420

  Sundaram, Sheila ^a,c   Welker, Volkmar ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Configuration spaces; Group action; Homotopy limits; Poset homology; Subspace arrangements; Symmetric functions

Indexed keywords

EID: 21744433115     PISSN: 00029947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1090/s0002-9947-97-01565-1     Document Type: Article

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