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Study of twisted Alexander matrices for certain quandles and their invariants.

New examples of Cappell-Shaneson knot pairs with same Alexander polynomial found.

Paper describes how to extend multiple conjugation quandles using maps.

A quandle is an algebra whose axioms are motivated from knot theory. A linear extension of a quandle can be described by using a pair of maps called an Alexander pair. In this paper, we show that a linear extension of a multiple conjugation quandle can be described by using a pair of maps called an MCQ Alexander pair, …

Study Alexander matrices for link quandles and their relation to knot invariants.

Quantum invariants are explained as intersections in configuration spaces.

We prove that an Alexander quandle of prime order is generated by any pair of distinct elements. Furthermore, we prove for such a quandle that any ordered pair of distinct elements can be sent to any other such pair by an automorphism of the quandle.

Study shows knots with similar Blanchfield forms can be homotopy ribbon concordant.

New knots share same Upsilon invariant despite different Alexander polynomials.

Given a link $L$, the Blanchfield pairing $\operatorname{Bl}(L)$ is a pairing which is defined on the torsion submodule of the Alexander module of $L$. In some particular cases, namely if $L$ is a boundary link or if the Alexander module of $L$ is torsion, $\operatorname{Bl}(L)$ can be computed explicitly; however no f…

In this paper, we study distribution of the zeros of the Alexander polynomials of knots and links in S^3. We call a knot or link "real stable" (resp. "circular stable") if all the zeros of its Alexander polynomial are real (resp. unit complex). We give a general construction of real stable and circular stable knots and…

Explicit matrix presentations of Blanchfield pairings and twisted pairings for torus knots.

Alexander group systems for virtual long knots are defined and used to show that any virtual knot is the closure of infinitely many long virtual knots. Manturov's result that there exists a pair of long virtual knots that do not commute is reproved.

Coloured Alexander polynomials form a sequence of non-semisimple quantum invariants coming from the representation theory of the quantum group $U_q(sl(2))$ at roots of unity. This sequence recovers the original Alexander polynomial as the first term. We give a topological model for this invariants, showing that they ca…

We study how the genus, the simplicial volume and the $L^2$-Alexander invariant of W. Li and W. Zhang can detect individual knots among all others. In particular, we use various techniques coming from hyperbolic geometry and topology to prove that the $L^2$-Alexander invariant contains strictly more information than th…

Survey of invariants for knotted 2-spheres in 4-space.

It is well known that the Blanchfield pairing of a knot can be expressed using Seifert matrices. In this paper, we compute the Blanchfield pairing of a colored link with non-zero Alexander polynomial. More precisely, we show that the Blanchfield pairing of such a link can be written in terms of generalized Seifert matr…

We consider the Alexander polynomial of a plane algebraic curve twisted by a linear representation. We show that it divides the product of the polynomials of the singularity links, for unitary representations. Moreover, their quotient is given by the determinant of its Blanchfield intersection form. Specializing in the…

A new invariant for links generalizes Alexander polynomial for sl_3.

Holonomy-preserving transformations help recover Alexander polynomials from graph zeta functions.

Using Blanchfield pairings, we show that two Alexander polynomials cannot be realized by a pair of matrices with Gordian distance one if a corresponding quadratic equation does not have an integer solution. We also give an example of how our results help in calculating the Gordian distances, algebraic Gordian distances…

We provide a diagrammatic computation for the bilinear form, which is defined as the pairing between the (relative) cup products with every local coefficients and every integral homology 2-class of every links in the 3-sphere. As a corollary, we construct bilinear forms on the twisted Alexander modules of links.

Null Lagrangian-preserving surgeries are a generalization of the Garoufalidis and Rozansky null-moves, that these authors introduced to study the Kricker lift of the Kontsevich integral, in the setting of pairs (M,K) composed of a rational homology sphere M and a null-homologous knot K in M. They are defined as replace…

Study Cremona transformations in weighted projective planes to find rational cuspidal curves and Zariski pairs.

Paper finds infinite pairs of fiber-type curves with same topology but different embeddings.

Extended symmetric unions extend properties of Alexander polynomials.

Paper proves a relative version of coarse Alexander duality and applies it to Jordan cycles.

Quandle coloring detects causality in spacetime links.

Novel symmetry found in colored HOMFLY polynomials from superalgebras.

Specialized knot theory theorems for strongly involutive links.

Simple knots in lens spaces fiber if their order doesn't divide certain Euclidean remainders.

New proof and formula linking fusion trees to quantum knot invariants.

Unified quantum invariants via intersections of embedded Lagrangians.

We study relations between the Alexander-Conway polynomial $\nabla_L$ and Milnor higher linking numbers of links from the point of view of finite-type (Vassiliev) invariants. We give a formula for the first non-vanishing coefficient of $\nabla_L$ of an m-component link L all of whose Milnor numbers $μ_{i_1... i_p}$ van…

For all n > 0 there is a homomorphism from the smooth concordance group of knots in dimension 2n + 1 to an algebraically defined group called the rational algebraic concordance group. This algebraic concordance group splits as a direct sum of groups indexed by polynomials. For n > 1 the homomorphism is injective. This …

Let M be a closed oriented 3-manifold with first Betti number one. Its equivariant linking pairing may be seen as a two-dimensional cohomology class in an appropriate infinite cyclic covering of the space of ordered pairs of distinct points of M. We show how to define the equivariant cube Q(K) of this Blanchfield pairi…

Unified invariant of knots derived from Verma modules.

Let K and K' be 2-knots. Suppose that K and K' are ribbon-move equivalent. Then the Farber-Levine pairing for K is equivalent to that for K' and the (Z-)torsion part of the first Alexander module of $K$ is isomorphic to that of K' as Z[Z] modules. Let K be a 2-knot which is ribbon-move equivalent to the trivial knot. T…

Study satellite operations on knot invariant θ, proving additivity and distinguishing knots.

New quantum models unify Alexander and generalized Alexander polynomials for AC links.

Given a link in $S^3$ we will use invariants derived from the Alexander module and the Blanchfield pairing to obtain lower bounds on the Gordian distance between links, the unlinking number and various splitting numbers. These lower bounds generalise results recently obtained by Kawauchi. We give an application restric…

The classical abelian invariants of a knot are the Alexander module, which is the first homology group of the the unique infinite cyclic covering space of S^3-K, considered as a module over the (commutative) Laurent polynomial ring, and the Blanchfield linking pairing defined on this module. From the perspective of the…

Establishes connection between Alexander polynomials and triangulations.

Researchers extend Alexander polynomial to knotoids and linkoids.

Given a null-homologous knot $K$ in a rational homology 3-sphere $M$, and the standard infinite cyclic covering $\tilde{X}$ of $(M,K)$, we define an invariant of triples of curves in $\tilde{X}$, by means of equivariant triple intersections of surfaces. We prove that this invariant provides a map $φ$ on $\Al^{\otimes 3…

Study Alexander polynomials of ribbon and virtual knots using ribbon's intrinsic singularity.

We define the higher-order Alexander modules $A_{n,i}(\mathcal{U})$ and higher-order degrees $δ_{n,i}(\mathcal{U})$ which are invariants of a complex hypersurface complement $\mathcal{U}$. These invariants come from the module structure of the homology of certain solvable covers of the hypersurface complement. Such inv…

Paper discusses groups where twisted Alexander polynomials vanish.