Twisted Alexander polynomials and surjectivity of a group homomorphism

DOI10.2140/AGT.2005.5.1315MaRDI QIDQ2571384zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Teruaki Kitano, Masaaki Suzuki, Masaaki Wada

Publication date 1 November 2005

Published in Algebraic \& Geometric Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0510224, https://eudml.org/doc/125618, http://www.emis.de/journals/UW/agt/AGTVol5/agt-5-51.abs.html

zbMATH Keywords

Reidemeister torsionsurjective homomorphismtwisted Alexander polynomial

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Abstract: If phi: G-->G' is a surjective homomorphism, we prove that the twisted Alexander polynomial of G is divisible by the twisted Alexander polynomial of G'. As an application, we show non-existence of surjective homomorphism between certain knot groups.

Review text

Let \(\phi :G\to H\) be a surjective homomorphism of finitely presented groups having a non-trivial abelianization. Each linear representation \(\psi :H\to \text{GL}(n;\mathbb R)\) induces one of \(G\) through \(\tau = \psi\circ\phi \). The authors show: Theorem: The twisted Alexander polynomial of \(G\) associated to \(\tau \) is divisible by the twisted Alexander polynomial of \(H\) associated to \(\psi \). In the paper two proofs of this Theorem are given. One proof is purely algebraic and the other one uses Reidemeister torsion. As an application, the authors study whether there is a surjective homomorphism from the knot groups \(G(K)\) to \(G(K')\) for knots \(K\) and \(K'\) in the case where \(K'\) is the figure eight knot.

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