Monotonicity of degrees of generalized Alexander polynomials of groups and 3-manifolds

DOI10.1017/S0305004105009035zbMath1097.57002arXivmath/0501190OpenAlexW2082999957MaRDI QIDQ5466785

Shelly L. Harvey

Publication date: 22 May 2006

Published in: Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0501190

zbMATH Keywords

finitely presented groupsymplecticThurston normAlexander polynomialshigher-order degreespoly-torsion-free abelian

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus (57M05)

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