{"title":"AN INVARIANT DERIVED FROM THE ALEXANDER POLYNOMIAL FOR HANDLEBODY-KNOTS","authors":"S. Okazaki","doi":"10.18910/76683","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"A handlebody-knot is a handlebody embedded in the 3-sphere. We introduce an invariant for handlebody-knots derived from their Alexander polynomials. The value of the invariant is a vertex-weighted graph. As an application, we describe a sufficient condition for a handlebody-knot to be irreducible and a necessary condition for a link to be a constituent link of a handlebody-knot.","PeriodicalId":54660,"journal":{"name":"Osaka Journal of Mathematics","volume":"57 1","pages":"737-750"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5000,"publicationDate":"2020-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Osaka Journal of Mathematics","FirstCategoryId":"100","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.18910/76683","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"MATHEMATICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
A handlebody-knot is a handlebody embedded in the 3-sphere. We introduce an invariant for handlebody-knots derived from their Alexander polynomials. The value of the invariant is a vertex-weighted graph. As an application, we describe a sufficient condition for a handlebody-knot to be irreducible and a necessary condition for a link to be a constituent link of a handlebody-knot.
期刊介绍:
Osaka Journal of Mathematics is published quarterly by the joint editorship of the Department of Mathematics, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, and the Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Osaka City University and the Department of Pure and Applied Mathematics, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Osaka University with the cooperation of the Department of Mathematical Sciences, Faculty of Engineering Science, Osaka University. The Journal is devoted entirely to the publication of original works in pure and applied mathematics.