Milnor invariants via unipotent Magnus embeddings

DOI10.1016/J.TOPOL.2019.106991MaRDI QIDQ2293006zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Hisatoshi Kodani, Takefumi Nosaka

Publication date 6 February 2020

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.07335, http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0006-0E5D-4

zbMATH Keywords

knotMagnus expansionMilnor invariantMilnor linksnilpotent group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generalized knots (virtual knots, welded knots, quandles, etc.) (57K12)

Abstract: We reconfigure the Milnor invariant of links in terms of central group extensions and unipotent Magnus embeddings. We also develop a diagrammatic computation of the invariant and compute the first non-vanishing invariants of the Milnor link and of several other links. Moreover, we refine the original Milnor invariants of higher degree.

Review text

Milnor's isotopy invarants of links, which date back to the 1950s, are notoriously difficult to compute. (His first paper on this topic was reviewed for Zbl by Reidemeister.) These authors discuss those difficulties and resolve them to a certain extent. They also refine the original Milnor invariants of higher degree, proving that their results are rationally non-trivial ``and can distinguish some links. Compare \textit{N. Kobayashi} et al. [Topology Appl. 224, 60--72 (2017; Zbl 1420.57023)], which considered Milnor invariants of certain covering links and also showed that they ``can distinguish some links for which the ordinary Milnor invariants coincide.

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