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arxiv: 1304.1870 · v1 · pith:QNEWHDWAnew · submitted 2013-04-06 · 🧮 math.GT

Milnor invariants of length 2k+2 for links with vanishing Milnor invariants of length leq k

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J.-B. Meilhan and the second author showed that any Milnor $\bar{\mu}$-invariant of length between 3 and $2k+1$ can be represented as a combination of HOMFLYPT polynomial of knots obtained by certain band sum of the link components, if all $\bar{\mu}$-invariants of length $\leq k$ vanish. They also showed that their formula does not hold for length $2k+2$. In this paper, we improve their formula to give the $\bar{\mu}$-invariants of length $2k+2$ by adding correction terms. The correction terms can be given by a combination of HOMFLYPT polynomial of knots determined by $\bar{\mu}$-invariants of length $k+1$. In particular, for any 4-component link the $\bar{\mu}$-invariants of length 4 are given by our formula, since all $\bar{\mu}$-invariants of length 1 vanish.

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