Splitting formulas for the LMO invariant of rational homology three–spheres

Massuyeau, Gwénaël

doi:10.2140/agt.2014.14.3553

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Splitting formulas for the LMO invariant of rational homology three–spheres

Gwénaël Massuyeau

Algebraic & Geometric Topology 14 (2014) 3553–3588

DOI: 10.2140/agt.2014.14.3553

Abstract

For rational homology $3$ –spheres, there exist two universal finite-type invariants: the Le–Murakami–Ohtsuki invariant and the Kontsevich–Kuperberg–Thurston invariant. These invariants take values in the same space of “Jacobi diagrams”, but it is not known whether they are equal. In 2004, Lescop proved that the KKT invariant satisfies some “splitting formulas” which relate the variations of KKT under replacement of embedded rational homology handlebodies by others in a “Lagrangian-preserving” way. We show that the LMO invariant satisfies exactly the same relations. The proof is based on the LMO functor, which is a generalization of the LMO invariant to the category of $3$ –dimensional cobordisms, and we generalize Lescop’s splitting formulas to this setting.

Keywords

$3$–manifold, finite-type invariant, LMO invariant, Lagrangian-preserving surgery

Mathematical Subject Classification 2010

Primary: 57M27

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Received: 11 October 2013

Accepted: 15 April 2014

Published: 15 January 2015

Authors

Gwénaël Massuyeau
Institut de Recherche Mathématique Avancée Université de Strasbourg and CNRS 7 rue René Descartes 67084 Strasbourg France
http://www-irma.u-strasbg.fr/~massuyea/

Volume 14, issue 6 (2014)