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Link homotopic but not isotopic

Geometric Topology 2017-03-30 v3

Abstract

Given an mm-component link LL in S3S^3 (m2m \ge 2), we construct a family of links which are link homotopic, but not link isotopic, to LL. Every proper sublink of such a link is link isotopic to the corresponding sublink of LL. Moreover, if LL is an unlink then there exist links that in addition to the above properties have all Milnor invariants zero.

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@article{arxiv.1601.05292,
  title  = {Link homotopic but not isotopic},
  author = {Bakul Sathaye},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1601.05292},
  year   = {2017}
}

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16 pages, 24 figures

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