Mayberry-Murasugi's formula for links in homology 3-spheres

2003/06/11 by Joan Porti, Porti, Joan
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paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.math/0306181

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Abstract

We prove Mayberry-Murasugi's formula for links in homology 3-spheres, which was proved before only for links in the 3-sphere. Our proof uses Franz-Reidemeister torsions.

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