Poincar\'e duality and degrees of twisted Alexander polynomials
Geometric Topology
2011-07-18 v1
Abstract
We prove duality theorems for twisted Reidemeister torsions and twisted Alexander polynomials generalizing the results of Turaev. As a corollary we determine the parity of the degrees of twisted Alexander polynomials of 3-manifolds in many cases.
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@article{arxiv.1107.3002,
title = {Poincar\'e duality and degrees of twisted Alexander polynomials},
author = {Stefan Friedl and Taehee Kim and Takahiro Kitayama},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1107.3002},
year = {2011}
}
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42 pages