{ "id": "1311.1863", "version": "v1", "published": "2013-11-08T01:45:21.000Z", "updated": "2013-11-08T01:45:21.000Z", "title": "An invariant of rational homology 3-spheres via vector fields", "authors": [ "Tatsuro Shimizu" ], "comment": "27 pages", "categories": [ "math.GT" ], "abstract": "We define an invariant of rational homology 3-spheres via vector fields. The construction of our invariant is a generalization of both that of the Kontsevich-Kuperberg-Thurston invariant and that of Watanabe's Morse homotopy invariant, which implies the equivalence of these two invariants.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2013-11-08T01:45:21.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "57M27" ], "keywords": [ "rational homology", "vector fields", "watanabes morse homotopy invariant", "kontsevich-kuperberg-thurston invariant", "generalization" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 27, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2013arXiv1311.1863S" } } }