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A geometric construction of the Conway potential function

Geometric Topology 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We give a geometric construction of the multivariable Conway potential function for colored links. In the case of a single color, it is Kauffman's definition of the Conway polynomial in terms of a Seifert matrix.

Cite

@article{arxiv.math/0406172,
  title  = {A geometric construction of the Conway potential function},
  author = {David Cimasoni},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0406172},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

21 pages, 27 figures