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Remark on arithmetic topology

Geometric Topology 2017-12-27 v2 Number Theory Operator Algebras

Abstract

We formalize the arithmetic topology, i.e. a relationship between knots and primes. Namely, using the notion of a cluster C*-algebra we construct a functor from the category of 3-dimensional manifolds M to a category of algebraic number fields K, such that the prime ideals (ideals, resp.) in the ring of integers of K correspond to knots (links, resp.) in M. It is proved that the functor realizes all axioms of the arithmetic topology conjectured in the 1960's by Manin, Mazur and Mumford.

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@article{arxiv.1706.06398,
  title  = {Remark on arithmetic topology},
  author = {Igor Nikolaev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1706.06398},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

10 pages, 2 figures; reference to the Lickorish-Wallace Theorem is added

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