Milnor invariants of string links, trivalent trees, and configuration space integrals (Q1625531)

The authors study the correspondence between Milnor's link invariants and trivalent trees. They show that the correspondence can be realized by configuration space integrals. The proof consists of a combinatorial analysis of the space of cocycles of trivalent diagrams. As a consequence, the authors obtain nontrivial cohomology classes in spaces of links in Euclidean spaces of dimension at least \(4\).