Homological stability for coloured configuration spaces and symmetric complements

Abstract

We prove a homological stability theorem for certain complements of symmetric spaces. This is a variant of a conjecture by Vakil and Matchett Wood for subspaces of $\mathrm{Sym}^n(X)$ where $X$ is an open manifold admitting a boundary. To do this we prove a homological stability result for a type of "coloured" configuration space by adding points of the same colour.