Milnor numbers, spanning trees, and the Alexander-Conway polynomial.

DOI10.1016/S0001-8708(03)00019-7zbMATH Open1041.57005arXivmath/0111102OpenAlexW1992723689MaRDI QIDQ1421392FDOQ1421392

Authors: Gregor Masbaum, Arkady Vaintrob 

Publication date: 26 January 2004

Published in: Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study relations between the Alexander-Conway polynomial $abl{a}_L$ and Milnor higher linking numbers of links from the point of view of finite-type (Vassiliev) invariants. We give a formula for the first non-vanishing coefficient of $abl{a}_L$ of an m-component link L all of whose Milnor numbers $m{u}_{i_1\mathrm{...}{i}_p}$ vanish for $plen$. We express this coefficient as a polynomial in Milnor numbers of L. Depending on whether the parity of n is odd or even, the terms in this polynomial correspond either to spanning trees in certain graphs or to decompositions of certain 3-graphs into pairs of spanning trees. Our results complement determinantal formulas of Traldi and Levine obtained by geometric methods.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0111102

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zbMATH Keywords

spanning treeMilnor invariantVassiliev invariantAlexander-Conway polynomial

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