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The Hodge polynomial of the Fulton-MacPherson compactification of configuration spaces
- American Journal of Mathematics
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 118, Number 5, October 1996
- pp. 963-977
- 10.1353/ajm.1996.0040
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Let X be a smooth complex variety. In the paper "A compactification of configuration spaces," Fulton and MacPherson construct a smooth compactification X[n] of the configuration space of n distinct labelled points on X; the space X[n] is projective if X is projective. In this paper, we obtain a generating function which expresses the virtual Hodge polynomials of the spaces X[n] in terms of the virtual Hodge polynomial of X. This enables us to read off the Euler characteristic of X[n] in terms of that of X and in the case when X is projective, the Hodge polynomial and the Poincaré polynomial of X[n] in terms of those of X.