Vanishing higher homology conjecture for symmetric-group Hurwitz spaces

Let GG be a symmetric group on more than two letters, and let cc be the conjugacy class of transpositions. For each integer i2i\geq 2, consider the rational homology of the connected Hurwitz space CHurG,nc\operatorname{CHur}^c_{G,n}. Vanishing higher homology conjecture. For every i2i\geq 2,

Hi(CHurG,nc;Q)H_i(\operatorname{CHur}^c_{G,n};\mathbb{Q})

vanishes for sufficiently large nn. This is proposed as a higher-homological analogue of Hurwitz's connectivity theorem and is presented as a conjectural ingredient for understanding stable homology and arithmetic asymptotics.

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Jordan S. Ellenberg, Akshay Venkatesh and Craig Westerland, “Homological stability for Hurwitz spaces and the Cohen-Lenstra conjecture over function fields”, arXiv:0912.0325 (2015).

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