TITLE: Access to a preprint by D. N. Verma
QUESTION [11 upvotes]: Some work I am doing is connected with a sequence 1, 3, 40, 1225, 67956, $\dots$ which agrees with http://oeis.org/A012250 for all eight terms. The only useful information in OEIS on this sequence is the reference D. N. Verma, Towards Classifying Finite Point-Set Configurations, preprint, 1997. Does anyone know how to obtain this preprint? Verma himself passed away last year.

REPLY [16 votes]: I don't have Verma's preprint, but there are more modern references on the subject, which don't seem to be on OEIS. Basically one looks at the GIT quotient $(\mathbb{P^1})^n//\operatorname{SL}_2$, and your sequence corresponds to its degree under a certain embedding in projective space for values of $n=4,6,8,...$. 
See section 2.11 in the paper "The moduli space of n points on the line is cut out by simple quadrics when n is not six", by B. Howard, J. Millson, A. Snowden and R. Vakil. An even more recent reference that also contains a sort of formula for these degrees is "The ring of evenly weighted points on the line", by M. Hering, B. Howard. Hope this helps.