Constraints on Alexander polynomials of certain two-component links

DOI10.1016/J.TOPOL.2004.05.004MaRDI QIDQ1886715zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors B. Doug Park

Publication date 19 November 2004

Published in Topology and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.topol.2004.05.004

zbMATH Keywords

Alexander polynomialSeiberg-Witten invariant

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of global analysis to structures on manifolds (57R57)

Review text

This paper considers 2-component links which are constructed in the following manner. Take a closed \(2m\)-braid \(B\) which represents the trivial knot and consider the double branched cover \(D\) of \(S^3\) branched along \(B\). The axis of \(B\) will lift to a 2-component link \(L_B\) in \(D\) (note that \(D\) is diffeomorphic to \(S^3\)). This construction was used by Fintushel-Stern to exhibit different symplectic surfaces representing the same homology class in a complex surface. These surfaces were constructed from the braids \(B\) and they were distinguished by looking at the Seiberg-Witten invariants of covers of the complex surface, branched along the surfaces. A direct relation between these SW-invariants and the Alexander polynomial of \(L_B\) enabled their calculation. In the present paper the Fintushel-Stern argument is reversed, and the relation between SW-invariants and Alexander polynomials is used to exhibit a family of mod 2 congruences satisfied by the Alexander polynomial of \(L_B\). These congruences are generalized to links which are lifts of any knot homologous to the axis in the complement of \(B\).

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