The inclusion of configuration spaces of surfaces in Cartesian products, its induced homomorphism, and the virtual cohomological dimension of the braid groups of S^2 and RP^2

Daciberg Lima Gonçalves, John Guaschi

Let M be a surface, perhaps with boundary, and either compact, or with a finite number of points removed from the interior of the surface. We consider the inclusion i: F\_n(M) --\t…