Instanton homology and the Alexander polynomial
Geometric Topology
2009-07-27 v2
Abstract
We prove that the instanton knot homology KHI(K) as defined by Kronheimer and Mrowka (Knots, sutures and excision, preprint), recovers the Alexander polynomial for knots K in the 3-sphere.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0907.4185,
title = {Instanton homology and the Alexander polynomial},
author = {Yuhan Lim},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0907.4185},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
17 pages, minor reorganization