Vanishing higher homology conjecture for symmetric-group Hurwitz spaces

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

Hi(CHur⁡G,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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