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Topological isotopy and Cochran's derived invariants

Geometric Topology 2020-11-04 v1

Abstract

We construct a link in the 33-space that is not isotopic to any PL link (non-ambiently). In fact, there exist uncountably many II-equivalence classes of links. The paper also includes some observations on Cochran's invariants βi\beta_i.

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@article{arxiv.2011.01409,
  title  = {Topological isotopy and Cochran's derived invariants},
  author = {Sergey A. Melikhov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.01409},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

18 pages, 11 figures. To appear in "Topology, Geometry, and Dynamics: Rokhlin Memorial" (St.-Petersburg, August 19-23, 2019), Contemporary Mathematics, 772 (V. M. Buchstaber, A. V. Malyutin, T. E. Panov, A. M. Vershik, eds.), Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 2021

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