n-QUASI-ISOTOPY II: COMPARISON

DOI10.1142/S021821650500397XzbMATH Open1080.57011arXivmath/0103114OpenAlexW2103379614MaRDI QIDQ5693403FDOQ5693403

Dušan Repovš, Sergey A. Melikhov

Publication date: 26 September 2005

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

Abstract: Geometric aspects of the filtration on classical links by k-quasi-isotopy are discussed, including the effect of Whitehead doubling, relations with Smythe's n-splitting and Kobayashi's k-contractibility. One observation is: omega-quasi-isotopy is equivalent to PL isotopy for links in a homotopy 3-sphere (resp. contractible open 3-manifold) M if and only if M is homeomorphic to S^3 (resp. R^3). As a byproduct of the proof of the "if" part, we obtain that every compact subset of an acyclic open set in a compact orientable 3-manifold M is contained in a PL homology 3-ball in M. We show that k-quasi-isotopy implies (k+1)-cobordism of Cochran and Orr. If z^{m-1}(c_0 + c_1 z^2 + ... + c_n z^{2n}) denotes the Conway polynomial of an m-component link, it follows that the residue class of c_k modulo gcd(c_0,..,c_{k-1}) is invariant under k-quasi-isotopy. Another corollary is that each Cochran's derived invariant �eta^k is also invariant under k-quasi-isotopy, and therefore assumes the same value on all PL links, sufficiently C^0-close to a given topological link. This overcomes an algebraic obstacle encountered by Kojima and Yamasaki, who "became aware of impossibility to define" for wild links what for PL links is equivalent to the formal power series sum �eta^n z^n by a change of variable.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0103114

zbMATH Keywords

Conway polynomialWhitehead doubleWhitehead manifoldFox-Artin arcPL-isotopy\(k\)-cobordism\(n\)-splittingCochran derived invariants \(\beta^i\)Milnor \(\bar \mu\)-invariant

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Cobordism and concordance in PL-topology (57Q60) Isotopy in PL-topology (57Q37)

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