Vassiliev invariants and the cubical knot complex

Details Vassiliev invariants and the cubical knot complex Vassiliev invariants and the cubical knot complex

2000-10-02

arxiv.org/abs/math/0010009v1

Topology 42 (2003), 83-101.

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Geometric Topology

41 pages, 15 figures

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We construct a cubical CW-complex CK(M^3) whose rational cohomology algebra contains Vassiliev invariants of knots in the 3-manifold M^3. We construct \bar{CK}(R^3) by attaching cells to CK(R^3) for every degenerate 1-singular and 2-singular knot, and we show that \pi_1(\bar{CK}(R^3))=1 and \pi_2(\bar{CK}(R^3))=Z. We give conditions for Vassiliev invariants to be nontrivial in cohomology. In particular, for R^3 we show that v_2 uniquely generates H^2(CK,D), where D is the subcomplex of degenerate singular knots. More generally, we show that any Vassiliev invariant coming from the Conway polynomial is nontrivial in cohomology. The cup product in H^*(CK) provides a new graded commutative algebra of Vassiliev invariants evaluated on ordered singular knots. We show how the cup product arises naturally from a cocommutative differential graded Hopf algebra of ordered chord diagrams.

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