Studying the multivariable Alexander polynomial by means of Seifert surfaces

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Authors David Cimasoni

Publication date 12 June 2006

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

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

zbMATH Keywords

Alexander polynomialmultilinkSeifert surfaceTorres relation

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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.

Review text

In classical knot theory a Seifert matrix \(V\) determines the one-variable Alexander polynomial \(\Delta (t)=\det (V^{tr}-tV)\) [\textit{H. Seifert}, Math. Ann. 110, 571--592 (1935; Zbl 0010.13303)]. In the paper under review the author observes that the ``multilinks introduced by \textit{D. Eisenbud} and \textit{W. Neumann} [Three-dimensional link theory and invariants of plane curve singularities. Annals of Mathematics Studies, No. 110. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press (1985; Zbl 0628.57002)] allow one to also study the multivariable form of the Alexander polynomial using Seifert matrices. As examples he gives proofs of two important formulas due to \textit{G. Torres} [Ann. Math. (2) 57, 57--89 (1953; Zbl 0050.17903)].

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