Salem-Boyd sequences and Hopf plumbing

zbMATH Open1109.57004arXivmath/0506602MaRDI QIDQ854528FDOQ854528

Eriko Hironaka

Publication date: 5 December 2006

Published in: Osaka Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Given a fibered link, consider the characteristic polynomial of the monodromy restricted to first homology. This generalizes the notion of the Alexander polynomial of a knot. We define a construction, called iterated plumbing, to create a sequence of fibered links from a given one. The resulting sequence of characteristic polynomials has the same form as those arising in work of Salem and Boyd in their study of distributions of Salem and P-V numbers. From this we deduce information about the asymptotic behavior of the large roots of the generalized Alexander polynomials, and define a new poset structure for Salem fibered links.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0506602

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zbMATH Keywords

Mahler measurefibered linkgeneralized Alexander polynomialHopf plumbingSalem and P-V numbers

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Topological entropy (37B40) PV-numbers and generalizations; other special algebraic numbers; Mahler measure (11R06)

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