Adjoint Reidemeister torsions of two-bridge knots

Yoon, Seokbeom

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Adjoint Reidemeister torsions of two-bridge knots
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Abstract:

We give an explicit formula for the adjoint Reidemeister torsion of two-bridge knots and prove that the adjoint Reidemeister torsion satisfies a certain type of vanishing identities.

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