Monotonicity of degrees of generalized Alexander polynomials of groups and 3-manifolds

DOI10.1017/S0305004105009035zbMath1097.57002arXivmath/0501190MaRDI QIDQ5466785

Shelly L. Harvey

Publication date: 22 May 2006

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0501190

zbMATH Keywords

finitely presented group; symplectic; Thurston norm; Alexander polynomials; higher-order degrees; poly-torsion-free abelian

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

20F05: Generators, relations, and presentations of groups

57M50: General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds

57M05: Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus

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