Milnor invariants for spatial graphs

DOI10.1016/J.TOPOL.2008.03.010MaRDI QIDQ930855zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Thomas Fleming

Publication date 24 June 2008

Published in Topology and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0704.3286

zbMATH Keywords

link homotopyMilnor groupSpatial graphComponent-homotopy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relations of low-dimensional topology with graph theory (57M15)

Abstract: Link homotopy has been an active area of research for knot theorists since its introduction by Milnor in the 1950s. We introduce a new equivalence relation on spatial graphs called component homotopy, which reduces to link homotopy in the classical case. Unlike previous attempts at generalizing link homotopy to spatial graphs, our new relation allows analogues of some standard link homotopy results and invariants. In particular we can define a type of Milnor group for a spatial graph under component homotopy, and this group determines whether or not the spatial graph is splittable. More surprisingly, we will also show that whether the spatial graph is splittable up to component homotopy depends only on the link homotopy class of the links contained within it. Numerical invariants of the relation will also be produced.

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