Mathematics – Geometric Topology
Scientific paper
2007-03-12
Mathematics
Geometric Topology
51 pages, uses pstricks
Scientific paper
We first present three graphic surgery formulae for the degree $n$ part $Z_n$ of the Kontsevich-Kuperberg-Thurston universal finite type invariant of rational homology spheres. Each of these three formulae determines an alternate sum of the form $$\sum_{I \subset N} (-1)^{\sharp I}Z_n(M_I)$$ where $N$ is the set of components of a framed algebraically split link $L$ in a rational homology sphere $M$, and $M_I$ denotes the manifold resulting from the Dehn surgeries on the components of $I$. The first formula treats the case when $L$ is a boundary link with $n$ components, while the second one is for $3n$--component algebraically split links. In the third formula, the link $L$ has $2n$ components and the Milnor triple linking numbers of its 3--component sublinks vanish. The presented formulae are then applied to the study of the variation of $Z_n$ under a $p/q$-surgery on a knot $K$. This variation is a degree $n$ polynomial in $q/p$ when the class of $q/p$ in $\QQ/\ZZ$ is fixed, and the coefficients of these polynomials are knot invariants, for which various topological properties or topological definitions are given.
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