A representation of Milnor's triple linking number by chord diagrams and doodle invariants

Abstract

From the work of X. S. Lin and Z. Wang, it follows that degree two knot invariant admits a decomposition into the sum of a Gauss diagram count and a term involving Arnold invariants. In this paper we establish an analogous description for Milnor's triple linking number - likewise of degree two - showing that it can be represented in terms of counts of certain chord diagrams together with doodle invariants.