Embedding calculus knot invariants are of finite type

DOI10.2140/AGT.2017.17.1701MaRDI QIDQ2398832zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors James Conant, Robin Koytcheff, Dev P. Sinha, Ryan D. Budney

Publication date 21 August 2017

Published in Algebraic \& Geometric Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1411.1832

zbMATH Keywords

configuration spacesspectral sequencesevaluation mapscalculus of functorsembedding calculuscosimplicial spacesfinite-type knot invariantsmapping space modelsstacking long knotsTaylor tower for the space of knots

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Homotopy functors in algebraic topology (55P65)

Abstract: We show that the map on components from the space of classical long knots to the n-th stage of its Goodwillie-Weiss embedding calculus tower is a map of monoids whose target is an abelian group and which is invariant under clasper surgery. We deduce that this map on components is a finite type-(n-1) knot invariant. We also compute the second page in total degree zero for the spectral sequence converging to the components of this tower as Z-modules of primitive chord diagrams, providing evidence for the conjecture that the tower is a universal finite-type invariant over the integers. Key to these results is the development of a group structure on the tower compatible with connect-sum of knots, which in contrast with the corresponding results for the (weaker) homology tower requires novel techniques involving operad actions, evaluation maps, and cosimplicial and subcubical diagrams.

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