<p>This project aims to give an overview of knots, orderability of knot groups, and to construct knots for which the knot groups enjoy some nice properties.</p> <p>To accomplish this, we first present some preliminary results concerning knots and knot groups. We then introduce the Alexander polynomial, and explain the idea of a special polynomial originally introduced by Linnell, Rhemtulla and Rolfsen. By investigating the conditions on a special polynomial, we classify all the special Alexander polynomial of fibred knots of degree less than 10. Finally we construct examples of fibred knots which have a special Alexander polynomial.</p> / Master of Science (MS)
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:mcmaster.ca/oai:macsphere.mcmaster.ca:11375/14262 |
| Date | January 2007 |
| Creators | Lu, Wangshan |
| Contributors | Nicas, Andrew, Mathematics and Statistics |
| Source Sets | McMaster University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | thesis |
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