Homotopy classification of ribbon tubes and welded string links

DOI10.2422/2036-2145.201507_003MaRDI QIDQ4977759zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Benjamin Audoux, Paolo Bellingeri, Jean-Baptiste Meilhan, Emmanuel Wagner

Publication date 17 August 2017

Published in ANNALI SCUOLA NORMALE SUPERIORE - CLASSE DI SCIENZE (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1407.0184

zbMATH Keywords

Gauss diagramlink-homotopyMilnor invariantribbon torus-linkribbon tubevirtual knotwelded string link

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Embeddings and immersions in PL-topology (57Q35)

Abstract: Ribbon 2-knotted objects are locally flat embeddings of surfaces in 4-space which bound immersed 3-manifolds with only ribbon singularities. They appear as topological realizations of welded knotted objects, which is a natural quotient of virtual knot theory. In this paper we consider ribbon tubes and ribbon torus-links, which are natural analogues of string links and links, respectively. We show how ribbon tubes naturally act on the reduced free group, and how this action classifies ribbon tubes up to link-homotopy, that is when allowing each component to cross itself. At the combinatorial level, this provides a classification of welded string links up to self-virtualization. This generalizes a result of Habegger and Lin on usual string links, and the above-mentioned action on the reduced free group can be refined to a general "virtual extension" of Milnor invariants. As an application, we obtain a classification of ribbon torus-links up to link-homotopy.

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