The L^2-Alexander invariant detects the unknot

DOI10.1016/J.CRMA.2013.03.009MaRDI QIDQ2376624zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Fathi Ben Aribi

Publication date 24 June 2013

Published in Comptes Rendus. Mathématique. Académie des Sciences, Paris (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1311.7342

zbMATH Keywords

\(L^2\)-Alexander invariantunknot detection

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Abstract: In this article, we present some of the properties of the $L^2$-Alexander invariant of a knot defined by Li and Zhang, some of which are similar to those of the classical Alexander polynomial. Notably we prove that the $L^2$-Alexander invariant detects the trivial knot.

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• The \(L^2\)-Alexander torsions of 3-manifolds
• The \(L^2\)-Alexander torsion for Seifert fiber spaces
• The L^2-torsion function and the Thurston norm of 3-manifolds
• The L^2-Alexander torsion of 3-manifolds
• DOES THE JONES POLYNOMIAL DETECT THE UNKNOT?
• Gluing formulas for the L2-Alexander torsions

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