TY - JOUR
T1 - Milnor invariants of length 2k+2 for links with vanishing Milnor invariants of length ≤k
AU - Kotorii, Yuka
AU - Yasuhara, Akira
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© 2015 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2015/4/1
Y1 - 2015/4/1
N2 - J.-B. Meilhan and the second author showed that any Milnor μ--invariant of length between 3 and 2. k+. 1 can be represented as a combination of HOMFLYPT polynomial of knots obtained by certain band sum of the link components, if all μ--invariants of length ≤. k vanish. They also showed that their formula does not hold for length 2. k+. 2. In this paper, we improve their formula to give the μ--invariants of length 2. k+. 2 by adding correction terms. The correction terms can be given by a combination of HOMFLYPT polynomial of knots determined by μ--invariants of length k+. 1. In particular, for any 4-component link the μ--invariants of length 4 are given by our formula, since all μ--invariants of length 1 vanish.
AB - J.-B. Meilhan and the second author showed that any Milnor μ--invariant of length between 3 and 2. k+. 1 can be represented as a combination of HOMFLYPT polynomial of knots obtained by certain band sum of the link components, if all μ--invariants of length ≤. k vanish. They also showed that their formula does not hold for length 2. k+. 2. In this paper, we improve their formula to give the μ--invariants of length 2. k+. 2 by adding correction terms. The correction terms can be given by a combination of HOMFLYPT polynomial of knots determined by μ--invariants of length k+. 1. In particular, for any 4-component link the μ--invariants of length 4 are given by our formula, since all μ--invariants of length 1 vanish.
KW - Clasper
KW - HOMFLYPT polynomial
KW - Milnor μ--invariant
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U2 - 10.1016/j.topol.2015.01.003
DO - 10.1016/j.topol.2015.01.003
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84922989840
SN - 0166-8641
VL - 184
SP - 87
EP - 100
JO - Topology and its Applications
JF - Topology and its Applications
ER -