Homological stability for the space of hypersurfaces with marked points

Abstract

We study the space of smooth marked hypersurfaces in a given linear system. Specifically, we prove a homology h-principle to compare it with a space of sections of an appropriate jet bundle. Using rational models, we compute its rational cohomology in a range of degrees, and deduce a homological stability result for hypersurfaces of increasing degree. We also describe the Hodge weights on the stable cohomology, and thereby connect our topological result to motivic results of Howe.

42 pages; comments welcome!