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Milnor invariants of covering links

Geometric Topology 2016-03-21 v1

Abstract

We consider Milnor invariants for certain covering links as a generalization of covering linkage invariants formulated by R. Hartley and K. Murasugi. A set of Milnor invariants for covering links is a cobordism invariant of a link, and that this invariant can distinguish some links for which the ordinary Milnor invariants coincide. Moreover, for a Brunnian link LL, the first non-vanishing Milnor invariants of LL is modulo-22 congruent to a sum of Milnor invariants of covering links. As a consequence, a sum of linking numbers of ' iterated' covering links gives the first non-vanishing Milnor invariant of LL modulo 22.

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@article{arxiv.1603.05873,
  title  = {Milnor invariants of covering links},
  author = {Natsuka Kobayashi and Kodai Wada and Akira Yasuhara},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.05873},
  year   = {2016}
}

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11 pages, 10 figures