#### Volume 18, issue 4 (2018)

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Stability phenomena in the homology of tree braid groups

### Eric Ramos

Algebraic & Geometric Topology 18 (2018) 2305–2337
##### Abstract

For a tree $G$, we study the changing behaviors in the homology groups ${H}_{i}\left({B}_{n}G\right)$ as $n$ varies, where ${B}_{n}G:={\pi }_{1}\left({UConf}_{n}\left(G\right)\right)$. We prove that the ranks of these homologies can be described by a single polynomial for all $n$, and construct this polynomial explicitly in terms of invariants of the tree $G$. To accomplish this we prove that the group ${\oplus }_{n}{H}_{i}\left({B}_{n}G\right)$ can be endowed with the structure of a finitely generated graded module over an integral polynomial ring, and further prove that it naturally decomposes as a direct sum of graded shifts of squarefree monomial ideals. Following this, we spend time considering how our methods might be generalized to braid groups of arbitrary graphs, and make various conjectures in this direction.

##### Keywords
configuration spaces of graphs, representation stability, squarefree monomial ideals
##### Mathematical Subject Classification 2010
Primary: 05C10
Secondary: 05E40, 05C05, 57M15