Reidemeister-Turaev torsion of 3-dimensional Euler structures with simple boundary tangency and pseudo-Legendrian knots

DOI10.1007/S002290100191zbMATH Open0991.57013arXivmath/0002143OpenAlexW1928518450MaRDI QIDQ5952934FDOQ5952934

Authors: R. Benedetti, Carlo Petronio 

Publication date: 28 August 2002

Published in: Manuscripta Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We generalize Turaev's definition of torsion invariants of pairs (M,x), where M is a 3-dimensional manifold and x is an Euler structure on M (a non-singular vector field up to homotopy relative to bM and local modifications in int(M). Namely, we allow M to have arbitrary boundary and x to have simple (convex and/or concave) tangency circles to the boundary. We prove that Turaev's H_1(M)-equivariance formula holds also in our generalized context. Our torsions apply in particular to (the exterior of) pseudo-Legendrian knots (i.e. knots transversal to a given vector field), and hence to Legendrian knots in contact 3-manifolds. We show that torsion, as an absolute invariant, contains a lifting to pseudo-Legendrian knots of the classical Alexander invariant. We also precisely analyze the information carried by torsion as a relative invariant of pseudo-Legendrian knots which are framed-isotopic. Using branched standard spines to describe vector fields we show how to explicitly invert Turaev's reconstruction map from combinatorial to smooth Euler structures, thus making the computation of torsions a more effective one. As an example we work out a specific calculation.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0002143

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zbMATH Keywords

pseudo-Legendrian knots

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Vector fields, frame fields in differential topology (57R25) Simple homotopy type, Whitehead torsion, Reidemeister-Franz torsion, etc. (57Q10)

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