• Title/Summary/Keyword: Seifert matrix of a link

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ALEXANDER POLYNOMIAL FOR LINK CROSSINGS

  • Lee, Youn W.
    • Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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    • v.35 no.2
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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.

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