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Knots in Washington XLIII; 60th birthday of J. Scott Carter
December 9-11, 2016
George Washington University
Washington, DC, USA

Organizers
Valentina Harizanov (GWU), Jozef H. Przytycki (GWU), Yongwu Rong (GWU), Radmila Sazdanovic (NCSU), Alexander Shumakovitch (GWU), Hao Wu (GWU)

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On Milnor's link-homotopy invariants
by
Kodai Wada
Waseda University

J. Milnor defined two kinds of link-homotopy invariants [&175;(μ)] and μ*. By definition it would seem that the [&175;(μ)]-invariant is stronger than the μ*-invariant. The problem was posed at the 1982 Sussex conference if the [&175;(μ)]-invariant is actually stronger. In this talk we give infinitely many examples that for non-repeated sequences of length greater than four [&175;(μ)] and μ* are distinct. For sequences of length not greater than four, Milnor has shown that [&175;(μ)]=μ*.

Date received: September 15, 2016


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