A question of Turaev about triple higher Milnor linking numbers of divide links (Q2055073)

From the introduction: The author starts by recalling the notion of divide, a relative, generic immersion of finitely many copies of the unit interval of \(\mathbb R\) into the unit disk in \(\mathbb R^2\). By a classical construction of the author involving the consideration of the tangent vectors to a divide, such an object defines a knot or a link in the 3-sphere, called a divide knot or divide link. In a series of papers starting in 1975, the author, working in the setting of singularities of complex curves associated with divide links in the 3-sphere, developed the theory of divide knots and links, as a method to present knots or links using real plane curves. The question which was asked by Turaev, and on which the author reports in this chapter, is the following: Let \(L\) be a link in the 3-sphere, consisting of \(n\) knots with given \(n\) divides. How can one compute the Milnor higher linking numbers from the system of divides? A'Campo gives an answer to this question for the triple higher linking numbers. At the same time, he provides an introduction to the theory of linking numbers and divide knots and links, and a new set of open questions. For the entire collection see [Zbl 1466.57001].