On homotopy groups of spaces of embeddings of an arc or a circle: the Dax invariant

DOI10.1090/TRAN/8805MaRDI QIDQ6138015zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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Publication date 16 January 2024

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.03041

zbMATH Keywords

Dax invarianthomotopy groupisotopyknotknot invariantknottednessspace of embeddingsspace of immersions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Embeddings in differential topology (57R40) Spaces of embeddings and immersions (58D10)

Abstract: We compute in many classes of examples the first potentially interesting homotopy group of the space of embeddings of either an arc or a circle into a manifold $M$ of dimension $dgeq4$. In particular, if $M$ is a simply connected 4-manifold the fundamental group of both of these embedding spaces is isomorphic to the second homology group of $M$, answering a question posed by Arone and Szymik. The case $d=3$ gives isotopy invariants of knots in a 3-manifold, that are universal of Vassiliev type $leq1$, and reduce to Schneiderman's concordance invariant.

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