Blanchfield forms and Gordian distance

DOI10.2969/JMSJ/06831047zbMATH Open1359.57003OpenAlexW1872197609MaRDI QIDQ329657FDOQ329657

Authors Stefan Friedl, Mark Powell, Maciej Borodzik 

Publication date 21 October 2016

Published in Journal of the Mathematical Society of Japan (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.8421

zbMATH Keywords

Alexander moduleBlanchfield formGordian distancesplitting numberunlinking number

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Abstract: Given a link in $S^3$ we will use invariants derived from the Alexander module and the Blanchfield pairing to obtain lower bounds on the Gordian distance between links, the unlinking number and various splitting numbers. These lower bounds generalise results recently obtained by Kawauchi. We give an application restricting the knot types which can arise from a sequence of splitting operations on a link. This allows us to answer a question asked by Colin Adams in 1996.

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