Linking numbers in rational homology $3$-spheres, cyclic branched covers and infinite cyclic covers
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Abstract:
We study the linking numbers in a rational homology $3$-sphere and in the infinite cyclic cover of the complement of a knot. They take values in $\mathbb {Q}$ and in ${Q}(\mathbb {Z}[t,t^{-1}])$, respectively, where ${Q}(\mathbb {Z}[t,t^{-1}])$ denotes the quotient field of $\mathbb {Z}[t,t^{-1}]$. It is known that the modulo-$\mathbb {Z}$ linking number in the rational homology $3$-sphere is determined by the linking matrix of the framed link and that the modulo-$\mathbb {Z}[t,t^{-1}]$ linking number in the infinite cyclic cover of the complement of a knot is determined by the Seifert matrix of the knot. We eliminate ‘modulo $\mathbb {Z}$’ and ‘modulo $\mathbb {Z}[t,t^{-1}]$’. When the finite cyclic cover of the $3$-sphere branched over a knot is a rational homology $3$-sphere, the linking number of a pair in the preimage of a link in the $3$-sphere is determined by the Goeritz/Seifert matrix of the knot.References
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Additional Information
- Józef H. Przytycki
- Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, The George Washington University, Washington, DC 20052
- MR Author ID: 142495
- Email: przytyck@research.circ.gwu.edu
- Akira Yasuhara
- Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Tokyo Gakugei University, Nukuikita 4-1-1, Koganei, Tokyo 184-8501, Japan
- MR Author ID: 320076
- Email: yasuhara@u-gakugei.ac.jp
- Received by editor(s): December 1, 2001
- Received by editor(s) in revised form: May 1, 2003
- Published electronically: January 16, 2004
- © Copyright 2004 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 356 (2004), 3669-3685
- MSC (2000): Primary 57M25; Secondary 57M10, 57M12
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9947-04-03423-3
- MathSciNet review: 2055749