Alexander-Beck modules detect the unknot

DOI10.4064/FM519-6-2018MaRDI QIDQ5376625zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Markus Szymik

Publication date 13 May 2019

Published in Fundamenta Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.08306

zbMATH Keywords

Alexander modulesBeck modulesknotsquandles

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Theories (e.g., algebraic theories), structure, and semantics (18C10) Sets with a single binary operation (groupoids) (20N02)

Abstract: We introduce the Alexander-Beck module of a knot as a canonical refinement of the classical Alexander module, and we prove that this new invariant is an unknot-detector.

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• Homological characterization of the unknot
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