Reidemeister torsion and Dehn surgery on twist knots

2015/06/09 by Anh T. Tran, Tran, Anh T.
Mathematics · #FOS: Mathematics #Geometric Topology (math.GT) #Primary 57N10 #Secondary 57M25 #math.GT #msc:57M25 #msc:57N10

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1506.02896

8 pages, 1 figure

arxiv created 2015/06/09 · arxiv updated 2015/06/10

Abstract

We compute the Reidemeister torsion of the complement of a twist knot in S³ and that of the 3-manifold obtained by a Dehn surgery on a twist knot.

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