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In this paper we revisit the cohomology groups of the moduli space of n-pointed curves of genus zero using the FI-module perspective introduced by Church–Ellenberg–Farb. We recover known results about the corresponding representations of the symmetric group.
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I would like to thank to Alex Suciu for pointing out a relevant reference and Jennifer Wilson for useful comments. I am grateful to the Department of Mathematics at Northeastern University for providing such appropriate working conditions that allowed the completion of this paper.
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Jiménez Rolland, R. (2016). The Cohomology of \(\mathcal{M}_{0,n}\) as an FI-Module. In: Callegaro, F., Cohen, F., De Concini, C., Feichtner, E., Gaiffi, G., Salvetti, M. (eds) Configuration Spaces. Springer INdAM Series, vol 14. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31580-5_13
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