Homotopy Bott-Taubes integrals and the Taylor tower for spaces of knots and links

DOI10.1007/S40062-015-0112-0zbMATH Open1352.57034arXiv1102.2270OpenAlexW2964208809MaRDI QIDQ331940FDOQ331940

Authors: Robin Koytcheff 

Publication date: 27 October 2016

Published in: Journal of Homotopy and Related Structures (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This work continues the study of a homotopy-theoretic construction of the author inspired by the Bott-Taubes integrals. Bott and Taubes constructed knot invariants by integrating differential forms along the fiber of a bundle over the space of knots. Their techniques were later used by Cattaneo et al. to construct real "Vassiliev-type" cohomology classes in spaces of knots in higher-dimensional Euclidean space. By doing this integration via a Pontrjagin-Thom construction, we constructed cohomology classes in the knot space with arbitrary coefficients. We later showed that a refinement of this construction recovers the Milnor triple linking number for string links. We conjecture that we can produce all Vassiliev-type classes in this manner. Here we extend our homotopy-theoretic constructions to the stages of the Taylor tower for the knot space, which arises from the Goodwillie-Weiss embedding calculus. We use the model of "punctured knots and links" for the Taylor tower.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1102.2270

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zbMATH Keywords

configuration space integralsembedding calculusfinite-type invariants of knots and linksMilnor triple linking numberPontrjagin-Thom constructionsspaces of knots and links

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