Alexander invariants for virtual knots

DOI10.1142/S0218216515500091MaRDI QIDQ5255347zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Hans U. Boden, Emily Dies, Anne Isabel Gaudreau, Adam Gerlings, Eric Harper, Andrew Nicas

Publication date 15 June 2015

Published in Journal of Knot Theory and Its Ramifications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.1459

zbMATH Keywords

virtual knotstwisted Alexander polynomialsknot groupsvirtual crossing numberAlexander invariants of virtual knots

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Abstract: Given a virtual knot $K$, we construct a group $V{G}_K$ called the virtual knot group, and we use the elementary ideals of $V{G}_K$ to define invariants of $K$ called the virtual Alexander invariants. For instance, associated to the $k=0$ ideal is a polynomial $H_K(s,t,q)$ in three variables which we call the virtual Alexander polynomial, and we show that it is closely related to the generalized Alexander polynomial $G_K(s,t)$ introduced by Sawollek, Kauffman-Radford, and Silver-Williams. We define a natural normalization of the virtual Alexander polynomial and show it satisfies a skein formula. We also introduce the twisted virtual Alexander polynomial associated to a virtual knot $K$ and a representation $varrhocolonV{G}_{K}oG{L}_n(R)$, and we define a normalization of the twisted virtual Alexander polynomial. As applications we derive bounds on the virtual crossing numbers of virtual knots from the virtual Alexander polynomial and twisted virtual Alexander polynomial.

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