Signature functions of knots

DOI10.1090/proc/14102zbMath1404.57027arXiv1709.00732OpenAlexW2963660618MaRDI QIDQ3177858

Charles Livingston

Publication date: 2 August 2018

Published in: Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.00732

zbMATH Keywords

Alexander polynomialunknotting numberGalois conjugateSeifert matrixjump functionbalanced functionknot concordance invariantsignature function of a knot

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Polynomials in general fields (irreducibility, etc.) (12E05) Bilinear and Hermitian forms (11E39) Cobordism and concordance in topological manifolds (57N70) Cobordism and concordance in PL-topology (57Q60)

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