The Chow groups of the Fulton-MacPherson configuration spaces
-- Angela Gibney, February 6, 2004

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Fulton and MacPherson discovered X[n], a natural
compactification of the configuration space of n distinct labeled points
on a nonsingular algebraic variety X.  In their paper [Annals 139, 1994 p.
187-225], they define X[n] and, among other things, give presentations of
their intersection rings.  In this talk, following an introduction to the
spaces X[n], I will give an explicit presentation of the Chow groups of
the X[n] in terms of the Chow groups of X and the boundary divisors.  
This talk is about joint work between myself, L. Chen and D. Krashen.