An Analogue of Milnor's Invariants for Knots in 3-Manifolds

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author Kuzbary, Miriam
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contents Milnor's invariants are some of the more fundamental oriented link concordance invariants; they behave as higher order linking numbers and can be computed using combinatorial group theory (due to Milnor), Massey products (due to Turaev and Porter), and higher order intersections (due to Cochran). In this paper, we generalize the first non-vanishing Milnor's invariants to oriented knots inside a closed, oriented $3$-manifold $M$. We call this the Dwyer number of a knot and show methods to compute it for null-homologous knots inside connected sums of $S^1 \times S^2$. We further show in this case the Dwyer number provides the weight of the first non-vanishing Massey product in the knot complement in the ambient manifold. Additionally, we prove the Dwyer number detects a family of knots K in $\#^{\ell}S^1 \times S^2$ bounding smoothly embedded disks in $\natural^{\ell} D^2 \times S^2$ which are not concordant to the unknot.
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spellingShingle An Analogue of Milnor's Invariants for Knots in 3-Manifolds
Kuzbary, Miriam
Geometric Topology
Group Theory
57M27, 57M05, 20F14, 20F34
Milnor's invariants are some of the more fundamental oriented link concordance invariants; they behave as higher order linking numbers and can be computed using combinatorial group theory (due to Milnor), Massey products (due to Turaev and Porter), and higher order intersections (due to Cochran). In this paper, we generalize the first non-vanishing Milnor's invariants to oriented knots inside a closed, oriented $3$-manifold $M$. We call this the Dwyer number of a knot and show methods to compute it for null-homologous knots inside connected sums of $S^1 \times S^2$. We further show in this case the Dwyer number provides the weight of the first non-vanishing Massey product in the knot complement in the ambient manifold. Additionally, we prove the Dwyer number detects a family of knots K in $\#^{\ell}S^1 \times S^2$ bounding smoothly embedded disks in $\natural^{\ell} D^2 \times S^2$ which are not concordant to the unknot.
title An Analogue of Milnor's Invariants for Knots in 3-Manifolds
topic Geometric Topology
Group Theory
57M27, 57M05, 20F14, 20F34
url https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.12108