Milnor-invariant criterion for the universal sl_2 invariant of bottom tangles

Let TT be an nn-component bottom tangle with 00-framing, and suppose that all Milnor μˉ\bar\mu invariants of TT vanish. Let JTJ_T denote its universal sl2sl_2 invariant. The relevant completed tensor product is (Uˉqev)^  ^n(\bar U_q^{\operatorname{ev}})\,\hat{}^{\;\hat \otimes n}.

Milnor-invariant conjecture. One should have

JT(Uˉqev)^  ^n.J_T\in (\bar U_q^{\operatorname{ev}})\,\hat{}^{\;\hat \otimes n}.

The paper presents this as a natural expectation because all Milnor μˉ\bar\mu invariants vanish for ribbon and boundary bottom tangles. The claim is not established in the supplied text, although it would extend the proved result for boundary bottom tangles.

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Sakie Suzuki, “On the universal sl_2 invariant of boundary bottom tangles”, arXiv:1103.2204 (2011).

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