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Homotopy on spatial graphs and generalized Sato-Levine invariants

Geometric Topology 2020-05-19 v3

Abstract

Edge-homotopy and vertex-homotopy are equivalence relations on spatial graphs which are generalizations of Milnor's link-homotopy. Fleming and the author introduced some edge (resp. vertex)-homotopy invariants of spatial graphs by applying the Sato-Levine invariant for the constituent 2-component algebraically split links. In this paper, we construct some new edge (resp. vertex)-homotopy invariants of spatial graphs without any restriction of linking numbers of the constituent 2-component links by applying the generalized Sato-Levine invariant.

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@article{arxiv.0710.3627,
  title  = {Homotopy on spatial graphs and generalized Sato-Levine invariants},
  author = {Ryo Nikkuni},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0710.3627},
  year   = {2020}
}

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16 pages, 13 figures

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