Higher-dimensional linking integrals
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Abstract:
We derive an integral formula for the linking number of two submanifolds of the $n$-sphere $S^n$, of the product $S^n \times \mathbb {R}^m$, and of other manifolds which appear as “nice” hypersurfaces in Euclidean space. The formulas are geometrically meaningful in that they are invariant under the action of the special orthogonal group on the ambient space.References
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Additional Information
- Clayton Shonkwiler
- Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania 19041
- MR Author ID: 887567
- ORCID: 0000-0002-4811-8409
- Email: cshonkwi@haverford.edu
- David Shea Vela-Vick
- Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027
- Email: shea@math.columbia.edu
- Received by editor(s): September 8, 2009
- Received by editor(s) in revised form: April 29, 2010
- Published electronically: October 1, 2010
- Communicated by: Daniel Ruberman
- © Copyright 2010
American Mathematical Society
The copyright for this article reverts to public domain 28 years after publication. - Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 139 (2011), 1511-1519
- MSC (2010): Primary 57Q45; Secondary 57M25, 53C20
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-2010-10603-2
- MathSciNet review: 2748445