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Nontrivial classes in $H^*(Imb(S^1,\R^n))$ from nontrivalent graph cocycles

Geometric Topology 2015-06-26 v2

Abstract

We construct nontrivial cohomology classes of the space Imb(S1,Rn)Imb(S^1,\R^n) of imbeddings of the circle into Rn\R^n, by means of Feynman diagrams. More precisely, starting from a suitable linear combination of nontrivalent diagrams, we construct, for every even number n4n\geq 4, a de Rham cohomology class on Imb(S1,Rn)Imb(S^1,\R^n). We prove nontriviality of these classes by evaluation on the dual cycles.

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@article{arxiv.math/0404196,
  title  = {Nontrivial classes in $H^*(Imb(S^1,\R^n))$ from nontrivalent graph cocycles},
  author = {Riccardo Longoni},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0404196},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

10 pages, 11 figures. V2: minor changes, typos corrected