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A NOTE ON DEGREES OF TWISTED ALEXANDER POLYNOMIALS II

Morifuji, Takayuki (Department of Mathematics Hiyoshi Campus Keio University)
Suzuki, Masaaki (Department of Mathematics Akita University)

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Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society / v.50, no.3, 2013 , pp. 929-934 More about this Journal

Abstract

In this short note we discuss degrees of twisted Alexander polynomials and demonstrate an explicit example of a closed 3-manifold which is related to the degree formula due to Friedl, Kim and Kitayama.

Keywords

twisted Alexander polynomial; knot group; zero-surgery;

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