Normalization of twisted Alexander invariants

DOI10.1142/S0129167X15500779MaRDI QIDQ3450726zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Takahiro Kitayama

Publication date 6 November 2015

Published in International Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0705.2371

zbMATH Keywords

Alexander invariantConway polynomialdualityReidemeister torsionSeifert genusWirtinger presentation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus (57M05) Simple homotopy type, Whitehead torsion, Reidemeister-Franz torsion, etc. (57Q10)

Abstract: Twisted Alexander invariants of knots are well-defined up to multiplication of units. We get rid of this multiplicative ambiguity via a combinatorial method and define normalized twisted Alexander invariants. We then show that the invariants coincide with sign-determined Reidemeister torsion in a normalized setting, and refine the duality theorem. We further obtain necessary conditions on the invariants for a knot to be fibered, and study behavior of the highest degrees of the invariants.

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