Geometry and Combinatorics Pertaining to the Homology of Spaces of Knots

dc.contributor.advisorSinha, Deven_US
dc.contributor.authorPelatt, Kristineen_US
dc.creatorPelatt, Kristineen_US
dc.date.accessioned2012-10-26T04:03:49Z
dc.date.available2012-10-26T04:03:49Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.description.abstractWe produce explicit geometric representatives of non-trivial homology classes in Emb(S1,Rd), the space of knots, when d is even. We generalize results of Cattaneo, Cotta-Ramusino and Longoni to define cycles which live off of the vanishing line of a homology spectral sequence due to Sinha. We use con figuration space integrals to show our classes pair non-trivially with cohomology classes due to Longoni. We then give an alternate formula for the first differential in the homology spectral sequence due to Sinha. This differential connects the geometry of the cycles we define to the combinatorics of the spectral sequence. The new formula for the differential also simplifies calculations in the spectral sequence.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/12423
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Oregonen_US
dc.rightsAll Rights Reserved.en_US
dc.subjectembedding spacesen_US
dc.subjectspaces of knotsen_US
dc.titleGeometry and Combinatorics Pertaining to the Homology of Spaces of Knotsen_US
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertationen_US

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