Cochran's βi-invariants via twisted Whitney towers

DOI10.1142/S0218216517400120zbMATH Open1387.57006arXiv1607.01722MaRDI QIDQ2969706FDOQ2969706

Authors: James Conant, Rob Schneiderman, Peter Teichner 

Publication date: 23 March 2017

Published in: Journal of Knot Theory and Its Ramifications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We show that Tim Cochran's invariants $$ of a $2$-component link $L$ in the $3$--sphere can be computed as intersection invariants of certain 2-complexes in the $4$--ball with boundary $L$. These 2-complexes are special types of twisted Whitney towers, which we call {em Cochran towers}, and which exhibit a new phenomenon: A Cochran tower of order $2k$ allows the computation of the $$ invariants for all $ileqk$, i.e. simultaneous extraction of invariants from a Whitney tower at multiple orders. This is in contrast with the order $n$ Milnor invariants (requiring order $n$ Whitney towers) and consistent with Cochran's result that the $$ are integer lifts of certain Milnor invariants.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.01722

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zbMATH Keywords

Milnor invariantslink concordanceWhitney towersclasper calculusCochran invariants

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