• 대한수학회보
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• 제51권2호
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• pp.539-545
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• 2014

We show that roots of log-concave Alexander knot polynomials are dense in C. This in particular implies that the log-concavity and Hoste's conjecture on the Alexander polynomial of alternating knots are (essentially) independent.

• 대한수학회논문집
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• 제33권2호
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• pp.591-604
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• 2018

We consider a family of ribbon 2-knots with trivial Alexander polynomial. We give nonabelian SL(2, C)-representations from the groups of these knots, and then calculate the twisted Alexander polynomials associated to these representations, which allows us to classify this family of knots.

• 대한수학회보
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• 제35권2호
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• pp.235-258
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• 1998

We define a crossing of a link without referring to a specific projection of the link and describe a construction of a non-normalized Alexander polynomial associated to collections of such crossings of oriented links under an equivalence relation, called homology relation. The polynomial is computed from a special Seifert surface of the link. We prove that the polynomial is well-defined for the homology equivalence classes, investigate its relationship with the combinatorially defined Alexander polynomials and study some of its properties.

• Kyungpook Mathematical Journal
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• 제56권3호
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• pp.1017-1045
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• 2016

Using a combination of calculational and theoretical approaches, we establish results that relate two knot invariants, the Alexander polynomial, and the number of quandle colourings using any finite linear Alexander quandle. Given such a quandle, specified by two coprime integers n and m, the number of colourings of a knot diagram is given by counting the solutions of a matrix equation of the form AX = 0 mod n, where A is the m-dependent colouring matrix. We devised an algorithm to reduce A to echelon form, and applied this to the colouring matrices for all prime knots with up to 10 crossings, finding just three distinct reduced types. For two of these types, both upper triangular, we found general formulae for the number of colourings. This enables us to prove that in some cases the number of such quandle colourings cannot distinguish knots with the same Alexander polynomial, whilst in other cases knots with the same Alexander polynomial can be distinguished by colourings with a specific quandle. When two knots have different Alexander polynomials, and their reduced colouring matrices are upper triangular, we find a specific quandle for which we prove that it distinguishes them by colourings.

• Kyungpook Mathematical Journal
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• 제52권2호
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• pp.223-243
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• 2012

There is a special connection between the Alexander polynomial of (1, 1)-knot and the certain polynomial associated to the Dunwoody 3-manifold ([3], [10] and [13]). We study the polynomial(called the Dunwoody polynomial) for the (1, 1)-knot obtained by the certain cyclically presented group of the Dunwoody 3-manifold. We prove that the Dunwoody polynomial of (1, 1)-knot in $\mathbb{S}^3$ is to be the Alexander polynomial under the certain condition. Then we find an invariant for the certain class of torus knots and all 2-bridge knots by means of the Dunwoody polynomial.

• Kyungpook Mathematical Journal
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• 제52권3호
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• pp.245-264
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• 2012

We determine lens surgeries (i.e. Dehn surgery yielding a lens space) along the n-twisted Whitehead link. To do so, we first give necessary conditions to yield a lens space from the Alexander polynomial of the link as: (1) n = 1 (i.e. the Whitehead link), and (2) one of surgery coefficients is 1, 2 or 3. Our interests are not only lens surgery itself but also how to apply the Alexander polynomial for this kind of problems.

• 대한수학회보
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• 제50권3호
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• pp.929-934
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• 2013

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.

• East Asian mathematical journal
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• 제36권3호
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• pp.359-364
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• 2020

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.

• 대한수학회지
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• 제55권3호
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• pp.705-717
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• 2018

We construct some infinite series of free and nearly free curves using pencils of conics with a base locus of cardinality at most two. These curves have an interesting topology, e.g. a high degree Alexander polynomial that can be explicitly determined, a Milnor fiber homotopy equivalent to a bouquet of circles, or an irreducible translated component in the characteristic variety of their complement. Monodromy eigenspaces in the first cohomology group of the corresponding Milnor fibers are also described in terms of explicit differential forms.

• Kyungpook Mathematical Journal
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• 제60권2호
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• pp.239-253
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• 2020

In this paper, we will find a Seifert matrix for a class of pretzel links with a certain symmetry. Using the symmetry, we find formulae for the Alexander polynomials, determinants and signatures of the pretzel links.