Instruct: Identify the main and secondary category of Arxiv papers based on the titles and abstracts
Query: Whitney towers and the Kontsevich integral   We continue to develop an obstruction theory for embedding 2-spheres into
4-manifolds in terms of Whitney towers. The proposed intersection invariants
take values in certain graded abelian groups generated by labelled trivalent
trees, and with relations well known from the 3-dimensional theory of finite
type invariants. Surprisingly, the same exact relations arise in 4 dimensions,
for example the Jacobi (or IHX) relation comes in our context from the freedom
of choosing Whitney arcs. We use the finite type theory to show that our
invariants agree with the (leading term of the tree part of the) Kontsevich
integral in the case where the 4-manifold is obtained from the 4-ball by
attaching handles along a link in the 3-sphere.

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The categories of this paper are: comp-gas
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The categories of this paper are: adap-org
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The categories of this paper are: mtrl-th
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The categories of this paper are: atom-ph
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The categories of this paper are: hep-ex
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The categories of this paper are: cond-mat
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The categories of this paper are: nucl-ex
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The categories of this paper are: hep-lat
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The categories of this paper are: q-bio
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The categories of this paper are: alg-geom
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The categories of this paper are: ao-sci
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The categories of this paper are: econ
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The categories of this paper are: cmp-lg
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The categories of this paper are: math-ph
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The categories of this paper are: supr-con
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The categories of this paper are: hep-th