Symmetric products of surfaces and the cycle index

dc.creatorBlagojevic, Pavle
dc.creatorGrujic, Vladimir
dc.creatorZivaljevic, Rade
dc.date2003-06-27
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T04:59:14Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T04:59:14Z
dc.descriptionWe express the signature ${\rm Sign}(SP^m_G(M))$ of the symmetric product $SP^n(M)$ of an (open) surface $M$ in terms of the cycle index $Z(G;\bar x)$ of $G$, a polynomial which originally appeared in P{\' o}lya enumeration theory of graphs, trees, chemical structures etc. The computations are used to show that there exist punctured Riemann surfaces $M_{g,k}, M_{g',k'}$ such that the manifolds $SP^{m}(M_{g,k})$ and $SP^{m}(M_{g',k'})$ are often not homeomorphic, although they always have the same homotopy type provided $2g+k = 2g'+k'$ and $k,k'\geq 1$.
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/math/0306397
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/math/0306397
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/67905
dc.subjectCombinatorics
dc.subjectAlgebraic Topology
dc.subject55S15; 14H40, 55R80, 57R19
dc.titleSymmetric products of surfaces and the cycle index
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