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Metabelian SL(n, $\mathbb C$) representations of knot groups IV: twisted Alexander polynomials

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 September 2013

HANS U. BODEN  and
STEFAN FRIEDL
HANS U. BODEN
Affiliation:
Mathematics & Statistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, L8S-4K1, Canada. e-mail: boden@mcmaster.ca
STEFAN FRIEDL
Affiliation:
Mathematisches Institut, Universität zu Köln, 50931 Köln, Germany e-mail: sfriedl@gmail.com
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Abstract

In this paper we will study properties of twisted Alexander polynomials of knots corresponding to metabelian representations. In particular we answer a question of Wada about the twisted Alexander polynomial associated to the tensor product of two representations, and we settle several conjectures of Hirasawa and Murasugi.

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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 156 , Issue 1 , January 2014 , pp. 81 - 97
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 2013 

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