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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