Milnor’s 𝜇̄-invariants and Massey products

Porter, Richard

doi:10.1090/S0002-9947-1980-0549154-9

Milnor’s $\bar \mu$-invariants and Massey products
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Abstract:

The main result of this paper gives an interpretation of Milnor’s $\overline \mu$-invariants of a link in terms of Massey products in the complement of the link. The approach presented here can be used to give topological proofs of results about the $\overline \mu$-invariants obtained by Milnor using different methods.

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