Mathematics – Geometric Topology
Scientific paper
2012-02-15
Mathematics
Geometric Topology
Only change is the addition of this comment: This paper subsumes the entire preprint "Geometric Filtrations of Classical Link
Scientific paper
This paper computes Whitney tower filtrations of classical links. Whitney towers consist of iterated stages of Whitney disks and allow a tree-valued intersection theory, showing that the associated graded quotients of the filtration are finitely generated abelian groups. Twisted Whitney towers are studied and a new quadratic refinement of the intersection theory is introduced, measuring Whitney disk framing obstructions. It is shown that the filtrations are completely classified by Milnor invariants together with new higher-order Sato-Levine and higher-order Arf invariants, which are obstructions to framing a twisted Whitney tower in the 4-ball bounded by a link in the 3-sphere. Applications include computation of the grope filtration, and new geometric characterizations of Milnor's link invariants.
Conant James
Schneiderman Rob
Teichner Peter
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