Conjecture that Koschorke's and Milnor-type invariants agree for Brunnian embedded links
Conjecture that Koschorke's and Milnor-type invariants agree for Brunnian embedded links
Let be a -Brunnian embedded link with components indexed by , and let be a permutation of the first component indices. Write for Koschorke's invariant and for the invariant introduced in the paper.
Invariant agreement conjecture. For -Brunnian embedded links, Koschorke's coincides up to sign with .
The agreement is known in particular when all components have codimension at least , and in the case , where both invariants coincide, up to a sign depending only on , with Milnor's classical invariants. The conjecture concerns the remaining cases, especially links involving codimension- components, where these invariants are not known to be complete link-homotopy invariants.
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Rafał Komendarczyk, Robin Koytcheff and Fedor Manin, “Milnor invariants and thickness of spherical links”, arXiv:2509.02883 (2025).
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