Algebraic and Geometric Topology 5 (2005), paper no. 5, pages 71-106.

Clover calculus for homology 3-spheres via basic algebraic topology

Emmanuel Auclair, Christine Lescop


Abstract. We present an alternative definition for the Goussarov--Habiro filtration of the Z-module freely generated by oriented integral homology 3-spheres, by means of Lagrangian-preserving homology handlebody replacements (LP-surgeries). Garoufalidis, Goussarov and Polyak proved that the graded space (G_n)_n associated to this filtration is generated by Jacobi diagrams. Here, we express elements associated to LP-surgeries as explicit combinations of these Jacobi diagrams in (G_n)_n. The obtained coefficient in front of a Jacobi diagram is computed like its weight system with respect to a Lie algebra equipped with a non-degenerate invariant bilinear form, where cup products in 3-manifolds play the role of the Lie bracket and the linking number replaces the invariant form. In particular, this article provides an algebraic version of the graphical clover calculus developed by Garoufalidis, Goussarov, Habiro and Polyak. This version induces splitting formulae for all finite type invariants of homology 3-spheres.

Keywords. 3-manifolds, homology spheres, finite type invariants, Jacobi diagrams, Borromeo surgery, clover calculus, clasper calculus, Goussarov-Habiro filtration

AMS subject classification. Primary: 57M27. Secondary: 57N10.

DOI: 10.2140/agt.2005.5.71

E-print: arXiv:math.GT/0401251

Submitted: 9 February 2004. Accepted: 28 December 2004. Published: 3 February 2005.

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Emmanuel Auclair, Christine Lescop
Institut Fourier (UMR 5582 du CNRS), B.P. 74
38402 Saint-Martin d'Heres cedex, France
Email: auclaire@ujf-grenoble.fr, lescop@ujf-grenoble.fr
URL: http://www-fourier.ujf-grenoble.fr/~lescop

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