AMCA: Massey products as tree-level parts of 3-manifold invariants. by Stavros Garoufalidis

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Arrangements in Boston: A Conference in Hyperplane Arrangements
June 12-15, 1999
Northeastern University
Boston, MA, USA

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Dan Cohen, David Massey, Alex Suciu

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Massey products as tree-level parts of 3-manifold invariants.
by
Stavros Garoufalidis
Harvard University
Coauthors: Jerome Levine (Brandeis University)

We will provide relations among the following subjects, as well as concrete statements and proofs:

(1) the tree-level part of a theory of finite type invariants of 3-manifolds (in general this theory has graphs of arbitrary number of loops) (2) Massey products (3) The Johnson homomorphism (4) Deformation quantization of surfaces (5) Graph-cohomology.

Our proofs are a mix of graph cohomology, geometric topology and a bit of surgery theory in the classical dimension.

Date received: April 30, 1999

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