Self delta-equivalence for links whose Milnor's isotopy invariants vanish
| dc.creator | Yasuhara, Akira | |
| dc.date | 2006-10-16 | |
| dc.date | 2007-04-29 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T07:58:36Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T07:58:36Z | |
| dc.description | For an $n$-component link $L$, the Milnor's isotopy invariant is defined for each multi-index $I=i_1i_2...i_m (i_j\in\n)$. 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 $r\leq 2$ are self $Δ$-equivalence invariants. In this paper, we give a self $Δ$-equivalence classification of the set of $n$-component links in $S^3$ whose Milnor invariants with length $\leq 2n-1$ and $r\leq 2$ vanish. As a corollary, we have that a link is self $Δ$-equivalent to a trivial link if and only if the all Milnor invariants of the link with $r\leq 2$ vanish. This is a geometric characterization for links whose Milnor invariants with $\leq 2$ 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. | |
| dc.description | 25 pages,18 figures, Changed the content (main result). Solved the conjecture given in previous version. Previous main result was a partial answer to the conjecture | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0610492 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0610492 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/128068 | |
| dc.subject | Geometric Topology | |
| dc.subject | 57M25; 57M27 | |
| dc.title | Self delta-equivalence for links whose Milnor's isotopy invariants vanish | |
| dc.type | text |