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A diagrammatic Alexander invariant of tangles

Geometric Topology 2012-03-27 v1

Abstract

We give a new construction of the one-variable Alexander polynomial of an oriented knot or link, and show that it generalizes to a vector valued invariant of oriented tangles.

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@article{arxiv.1203.5457,
  title  = {A diagrammatic Alexander invariant of tangles},
  author = {Stephen Bigelow},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1203.5457},
  year   = {2012}
}

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8 pages