Signatures of Covering Links

DOI10.4153/CJM-1981-032-3zbMath0469.57004OpenAlexW2949997929MaRDI QIDQ3923275

Kunio Murasugi, Cameron McA. Gordon, Richard A. Litherland

Publication date: 1981

Published in: Canadian Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.4153/cjm-1981-032-3

zbMATH Keywords

2-bridge knotbranched cyclic coverperiodic knotssignature invariant for a null-homologous link l in an oriented 3-manifoldsignatures of covering linkstorus-links

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20) Low-dimensional topology of special (e.g., branched) coverings (57M12)

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