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There is no topological Fulton-MacPherson compactification

Alexander Kupers

Published 2020-11-30Version 1

In this note we prove that the Fulton-MacPherson compactification of configuration spaces of smooth manifolds can not be extended to topological manifolds in a natural manner, using recent work of Chen and Mann.

Comments: 2 pages
Categories: math.GT, math.AT
Subjects: 55R80, 57S05
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