Introduction to twisted Alexander polynomials and related topics

2015/10/12 by Teruaki Kitano, Kitano, Teruaki
Mathematics · #FOS: Mathematics #Geometric Topology (math.GT) #math.GT

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1510.03216

arxiv created 2016/01/16 · arxiv updated 2016/01/19

Abstract

This article is based on the lectures in the Winter Braids V (Pau, Feb. 2015). Main puposel of this is to explain how to compute twisted Alexander polynomials for non-experts.

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