Strong stability and shifted stability for the cohomology of configuration spaces

Abstract

Homological stability for unordered configuration spaces of connected manifolds was discovered by Th. Church and extended by O. Randal-Williams and B. Knudsen: $H_i(C_k(M);\mathbb{Q})$ is constant for $k\ge f(i)$. We characterize the manifolds satisfying strong stability: $H^{\ast }(C_k(M);\mathbb{Q})$ is constant for $k\gg 0$. We give few examples of manifolds whose top Betti numbers are stable after a shift of degree.

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