Signature functions of knots

DOI10.1090/PROC/14102zbMATH Open1404.57027arXiv1709.00732OpenAlexW2963660618MaRDI QIDQ3177858FDOQ3177858

Authors: Charles Livingston 

Publication date: 2 August 2018

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

Abstract: The signature function of a knot is an integer-valued step function on the unit circle in the complex plane. Necessary and sufficient conditions for a function to be the signature function of a knot are presented.

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

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zbMATH Keywords

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

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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