Twisted Blanchfield pairings and decompositions of 3-manifolds (Q1689740)

Let \(Y\) be a \(3\)-manifold with empty or toroidal boundary. In this article all 3-manifolds are assumed to be compact, oriented and connected. Given a morphism \(\phi\) of the group ring \(\mathbb Z[\pi_1(Y)]\) to an Ore domain \(R\), the authors investigate the twisted Blanchfield pairing \((Y,\phi)\). In particular, they prove a decomposition formula for these pairings. As an application they shown that the twisted Blanchfield pairing of a \(3\)-manifold obtained from \(Y\) with a morphism \(\phi:\mathbb Z[\pi_1(Y)] \to R\), infected by a knot \(J\) along a curve \(\eta\) with \(\phi(\eta)\neq 1\), splits orthogonally as the sum of the twisted Blanchfield pairing of \((Y,\phi)\) and the ordinary Blanchfield pairing of the knot \(J\), with the latter tensored up from \(\mathbb Z[t, t^{-1}]\) to \(R\).