Pith. sign in

REVIEW

Invariants of Montesinos Twins

Not yet reviewed by Pith; the record is open.

This paper has not been read by Pith yet. Machine review is queued; the pith claim, tier, and objections will appear here once it completes.

SPECIMEN: schema-true, not a live event

T0 review · schema-true

One-sentence machine reading of the paper's core claim.

pith:XXXXXXXX · record.json · timestamp

arxiv 1212.1147 v1 pith:MZ5H3FZA submitted 2012-12-05 math.GT math.DG

classification math.GTmath.DG
keywords invariantgillerknotpolynomialalexandermontesinostwincases
verification ladder T0 review T1 audit T2 compute T3 formal
0 comments
read the original abstract

C. Giller proposed an invariant of ribbon 2-knots in S^4 based on a type of skein relation for a projection to R^3. In certain cases, this invariant is equal to the Alexander polynomial for the 2-knot. Giller's invariant is, however, a symmetric polynomial -- which the Alexander polynomial of a 2-knot need not be. After modifying a 2-knot into a Montesinos twin in a natural way, we show that Giller's invariant is related to the Seiberg-Witten invariant of the exterior of the twin, glued to the complement of a fiber in E(2).

Discussion (0). Continue with ORCID to comment.

Pith tools