The Levine-Tristram signature: a survey

DOI10.1007/978-3-030-62497-2_2zbMath1481.57007arXiv1903.04477OpenAlexW2922489702MaRDI QIDQ2058914

Anthony Conway

Publication date: 10 December 2021

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.04477

zbMATH Keywords

Levine-Tristram signaturelink concordanceunlinking numbers

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to manifolds and cell complexes (57-02) Knot theory (57K10)

Related Items (4)

Limits of the Tristram–Levine signature function ⋮ Twisted Blanchfield pairings and twisted signatures. I: algebraic background ⋮ A Levine-Tristram invariant for knotted tori ⋮ The symplectic isotopy problem for rational cuspidal curves

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