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Graphing, homotopy groups of spheres, and spaces of long links and knots
Forum of Mathematics, Sigma, Tome 13 (2025) no. 1, p. e35

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We study homotopy groups of spaces of long links in Euclidean space of codimension at least three. With multiple components, they admit split injections from homotopy groups of spheres. We show that, up to knotting, these account for all the homotopy groups in a range which depends on the dimensions of the source manifolds and target manifold and which roughly generalizes the triple-point-free range for isotopy classes. Just beyond this range, joining components sends both a parametrized long Borromean rings class and a Hopf fibration to a generator of the first nontrivial homotopy group of the space of long knots. For spaces of equidimensional long links of most source dimensions, we describe generators for the homotopy group in this degree in terms of these Borromean rings and homotopy groups of spheres. A key ingredient in most of our results is a graphing map which increases source and target dimensions by one. 
Koytcheff, Robin. Graphing, homotopy groups of spheres, and spaces of long links and knots. Forum of Mathematics, Sigma, Tome 13 (2025) no. 1, p. e35. doi: 10.1017/fms.2024.114
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