Self delta-equivalence for links whose Milnor’s isotopy invariants vanish

DOI10.1090/S0002-9947-09-04840-5zbMATH Open1178.57007arXivmath/0610492MaRDI QIDQ3394973FDOQ3394973

Authors: Akira Yasuhara 

Publication date: 11 September 2009

Published in: Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: For an $n$-component link $L$, the Milnor's isotopy invariant is defined for each multi-index $I=i_1{i}_2\mathrm{...}{i}_m(i_{j}in)$. Here $m$ is called the length. Let $r(I)$ denote the maximam number of times that any index appears. It is known that Milnor invariants with $r=1$ are link-homotopy invariant. N. Habegger and X. S. Lin showed that two string links are a link-homotopc if and only if their Milnor invariants with $r=1$ coincide. This gives us that a link in $S^3$ is link-homotopic to a trivial link if and only if the all Milnor invariants of the link with $r=1$ vanish. Although Milnor invariants with $r=2$ are not link-homotopy invariants, T. Fleming and the author showed that Milnor invariants with $rleq2$ are self $Delta$-equivalence invariants. In this paper, we give a self $Delta$-equivalence classification of the set of $n$-component links in $S^3$ whose Milnor invariants with length $leq2n-1$ and $rleq2$ vanish. As a corollary, we have that a link is self $Delta$-equivalent to a trivial link if and only if the all Milnor invariants of the link with $rleq2$ vanish. This is a geometric characterization for links whose Milnor invariants with $leq2$ vanish. The chief ingredient in our proof is Habiro's clasper theory. We also give an alternate proof of a link-homotopy classification of string links by using clasper theory.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0610492

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zbMATH Keywords

clasperstring linklinkMilnor invariantlink homotopyself \(\Delta\)-equivalence\(C_k\)-move

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