REVISIT TO ALEXANDER MODULES OF 2-GENERATOR KNOTS IN THE 3-SPHERE

It is known that a 2-generator knot K has a cyclic Alexander module ℤ[t, t^―1]/(Δ(t)) where Δ(t) is the Alexander polynomial of K. In this paper we explicitly show how to reduce 2-generator Alexander modules to cyclic ones by using Chiswell, Glass and Wilsons presentations of 2-generator knot groups $$<\;x,\;y\;{\mid}\;(x^{{\alpha}_1})^{y^{{\gamma}_1}},\;{\cdots}\;,\;(x^{{\alpha}_k})^{y^{{\gamma}_k}}\;>$$ where a^b = bab^-1.