Dezhou Li | Searcharxiv

arXiv2026

On the wreath transfer in the homology of symmetric groups

For an odd prime $p$, we give an explicit formula for the wreath transfer $\mathrm{tr} \colon H_*(\Sigma_{p^2};\mathbb{F}_p)\longrightarrow H_*(\Sigma_p\wr\Sigma_p;\mathbb{F}_p)$ associated with the standard inclusion $\Sigma_p\wr\Sigma_p\le\Sigma_{p^2}$. The proof is a direct algebraic computation, using Cartan's classical double-coset formula together with a generating-function argument. As an immediate consequence, we obtain an elementary proof of the validity of the mixed Adem relations in Goodwillie calculus.

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arXiv2026

Configuration spaces and the Arone--Mahowald theorem

We take up the study, initiated by Fred Cohen, of the Cartan--Leray spectral sequence for Euclidean configuration spaces, establishing a decomposition as a direct sum of atomic spectral sequences. As an immediate consequence, we recover a difficult theorem of Arone--Mahowald on the vanishing of Goodwillie derivatives of the identity.

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