2013/11/28 by Fathi Ben Aribi, Aribi, Fathi Ben
Mathematics · #46L #57M25 #57M27 #FOS: Mathematics #Geometric Topology (math.GT) #Operator Algebras (math.OA) #Secondary 58J52 #math.GT #math.OA #msc:46L #msc:57M25 #msc:57M27 #msc:58J52
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1311.7342
Some typos were corrected, and we added formulas for the invariant of the inverse knot or the mirror image of a knot
arxiv created 2014/02/07 · arxiv updated 2014/02/10
In this article, we present some of the properties of the L2-Alexander invariant of a knot defined by Li and Zhang, some of which are similar to those of the classical Alexander polynomial. Notably we prove that the L2-Alexander invariant detects the trivial knot.