Homology, Homotopy and Applications

Volume 7 (2005)

Number 1

The complex of words and Nakaoka stability

Pages: 77 – 85

DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.4310/HHA.2005.v7.n1.a5

Author

Moritz C. Kerz (Institut für Mathematik, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany)

Abstract

We give a new simple proof of the exactness of the complex of injective words and use it to prove Nakaoka’s homology stability for symmetric groups. The methods are generalized to show acyclicity in low degrees for the complex of words in “general position”.

Keywords

complex of words, homology stability

2010 Mathematics Subject Classification

18G35, 20J06

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Published 1 January 2005