Some non-trivial cycles of the space of long embeddings detected by configuration space integral invariants using g-loop (g =2, 3) graphs

TL;DR

This paper constructs non-trivial geometric cycles in the space of long embeddings using configuration space integrals and graph complexes, providing new proofs of non-finite generation of certain homotopy groups.

Contribution

It introduces a novel method to detect non-trivial cycles in embedding spaces via 2-loop and 3-loop graph integrals, extending previous results.

Findings

Constructed non-trivial cycles from specific chord diagrams.

Provided an alternative proof for non-finite generation of certain homotopy groups.

Extended the non-finite generation results to higher homotopy groups using 3-loop graphs.

Abstract

In this paper, we give some non-trivial geometric cycles of the space of long embeddings R^j --> R^n (n-j >= 2) modulo immersions. We construct a class of cycles from specific chord diagrams associated with the 2-loop or 3-loop hairy graphs. To detect these cycles, we use cocycles obtained by the 2-loop or 3-loop part of modified configuration space integrals using a modified Bott-Cattaneo-Rossi graph complex. We show the non-triviality of the cycles by pairing argument, which is reduced to pairing of graphs with the chord diagrams. As a corollary of the 2-loop part, we provide an alternative proof of the non-finite generation of the (j-1)-th rational homotopy group of the space of long embeddings of codimension two, which Budney--Gabai and Watanabe first established. We also show the non-finite generation of the 2(j-1)-th homotopy group by using the 3-loop part.