Studying the multivariable Alexander polynomial by means of Seifert surfaces

zbMATH Open1097.57008arXivmath/0406150MaRDI QIDQ2493399FDOQ2493399

Authors: David Cimasoni 

Publication date: 12 June 2006

Published in: Boletín de la Sociedad Matemática Mexicana. Third Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We show how Seifert surfaces, so useful for the understanding of the Alexander polynomial Delta_L(t), can be generalized in order to study the multivariable Alexander polynomial Delta_L(t_1,...,t_mu). In particular, we give an elementary and geometric proof of the Torres formula.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0406150

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zbMATH Keywords

Alexander polynomialSeifert surfacemultilinkTorres relation

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