The Kontsevich integral for bottom tangles in handlebodies

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Abstract: Using an extension of the Kontsevich integral to tangles in handlebodies similar to a construction given by Andersen, Mattes and Reshetikhin, we construct a functor Z:mathcalBowidehatmathbbA, where mathcalB is the category of bottom tangles in handlebodies and widehatmathbbA is the degree-completion of the category mathbbA of Jacobi diagrams in handlebodies. As a symmetric monoidal linear category, mathbbA is the linear PROP governing "Casimir Hopf algebras", which are cocommutative Hopf algebras equipped with a primitive invariant symmetric 2-tensor. The functor Z induces a canonical isomorphism hboxgrmathcalBcongmathbbA, where hboxgrmathcalB is the associated graded of the Vassiliev-Goussarov filtration on mathcalB. To each Drinfeld associator varphi we associate a ribbon quasi-Hopf algebra Hvarphi in hboxgrmathcalB, and we prove that the braided Hopf algebra resulting from Hvarphi by "transmutation" is precisely the image by Z of a canonical Hopf algebra in the braided category mathcalB. Finally, we explain how Z refines the LMO functor, which is a TQFT-like functor extending the Le-Murakami-Ohtsuki invariant.



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