In the 1960s French mathematician George de Rham found a relationship between two invariants of knots. He found that there exist representations of the fundamental group of a knot into a group G of upper right triangular matrices in C with determinant one that is described exactly by the roots of the Alexander polynomial. I extended this result to find that the representations of the fundamental group of a link into G are described by the multivariable Alexander polynomial of the link.
Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:CLAREMONT/oai:scholarship.claremont.edu:hmc_theses-1188 |
Date | 01 May 2006 |
Creators | May, Jessica |
Publisher | Scholarship @ Claremont |
Source Sets | Claremont Colleges |
Detected Language | English |
Type | text |
Format | application/pdf |
Source | HMC Senior Theses |
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