English

Alexander-Beck modules detect the unknot

Geometric Topology 2019-04-12 v2 Algebraic Topology Category Theory Quantum Algebra

Abstract

We introduce the Alexander-Beck module of a knot as a canonical refinement of the classical Alexander module, and we prove that this new invariant is an unknot-detector.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.1610.08306,
  title  = {Alexander-Beck modules detect the unknot},
  author = {Markus Szymik},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.08306},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

27 pages, 1 figure, Fund. Math. (to appear)

R2 v1 2026-06-22T16:32:27.460Z