The Burau matrix and Fiedler's invariant for a closed braid
Abstract
It is shown how Fiedler's `small state-sum' invariant for a braid can be calculated from the 2-variable Alexander polynomial of the link which consists of the closed braid together with the braid axis.
- Publication:
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arXiv Mathematics e-prints
- Pub Date:
- January 1998
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.math/9801034
- arXiv:
- arXiv:math/9801034
- Bibcode:
- 1998math......1034M
- Keywords:
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- Geometric Topology;
- 57M25
- E-Print:
- 7 pages LaTeX2e. To appear in Topology and its Applications