Conway polynomial and Magnus expansion
Geometric Topology
2010-01-22 v2 Combinatorics
Abstract
The Magnus expansion is a universal finite type invariant of pure braids with values in the space of horizontal chord diagrams. The Conway polynomial composed with the short circuit map from braids to knots gives rise to a series of finite type invariants of pure braids and thus factors through the Magnus map. We describe explicitly the resulting mapping from horizontal chord diagrams on 3 strands to univariate polynomials and evaluate it on the Drinfeld associator obtaining, conjecturally, a beautiful generating function whose coefficients are integer combinations of multiple zeta values.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1001.2500,
title = {Conway polynomial and Magnus expansion},
author = {S. V. Duzhin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1001.2500},
year = {2010}
}
Comments
12 pages, several figures. Typos and inaccuracies corrected, bibliography updated, an acknowledgement added