Milnor-Orr invariants from the Kontsevich invariant

Abstract

As nilpotent studies in knot theory, we focus on invariants of Milnor, Orr, and Kontsevich. We show that the Orr invariant of degree $k$ is equivalent to the tree reduction of the Kontsevich invariant of degree $<2k$. Furthermore, we will see a close relation between the Orr invariant and the Milnor invariant, and discuss a method of computing these invariants

8 figures, 16 pages. I revised minor mistakes, and improve some proofs

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• Group-like expansions and invariants of string links
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