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Fermat limit and congruence of Ohtsuki invariants

Xiao-Song Lin, Zhenghan Wang

math.GTarXiv:math/9810147

Abstract

By calculating the Fermat limit of certain q-Fermat functions, we get explicit surgery formulae for the second and third Ohtsuki invariants for homology 3-spheres. The surgery formula of the second Ohtsuki invariant λ2, combined with an argument using the general theory of finite type invariants of homology 3-spheres, leads to a congruence relation between the first and second Ohtsuki invariants: λ1=2λ2 mod 24.

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