Alexander Ideals of Links

Jonathan A. Hillman (auth.)9780387111681, 0-387-11168-9

Table of contents :
Preliminaries….Pages 1-1
Links and link groups….Pages 2-15
Ribbon links….Pages 16-26
Determinatal invariants of modules….Pages 27-39
The crowell exact sequence….Pages 40-53
The vanishing of Alexander ideals….Pages 54-65
Longitudes and principality….Pages 66-81
Sublinks….Pages 82-99
Reduced Alexander ideals….Pages 100-115
Localizing the Blanchfield pairing….Pages 116-139
Monorientable spanning surfaces….Pages 140-152