Vassiliev invariants of two component links and the Casson-Walker invariant

DOI10.1016/S0040-9383(96)00047-XMaRDI QIDQ1360150zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Charles Livingston, Paul Kirk

Publication date 8 February 1998

Published in Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/S0040-9383(96)00047-X

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amphicheiral linksCasson-Walker invarianttwo-disjoint-components linkVassiliev invariant

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The authors consider the Vassiliev type invariant for a two disjoint components link. This ``disjoint means that a linking number is fixed and the Vassiliev skein relation can be used only for the crossing points on the same component. This setting is very different from the usual one and very complicated. The authors consider the Casson-Walker invariant of the three-manifold that is obtained from 0-surgery on a two-component link \(L\) in \(S^3\) and modified it valued at the integer, denoted by \(\lambda (L)\). They show that the type 1 integer Vassiliev invariant for a two-disjoint-components link modulo the type 0 is only the modified Casson-Walker invariant \(\lambda (L)\). It is also shown that \(\lambda (L)\) has a simple combinatorial definition, making it easy to compute, and as an application they give a quick proof that amphicheiral links cannot have linking number equal to 2 modulo 4.

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