Braids in Pau – An Introduction
[Tresses à Pau – une introduction]
Artal Bartolo, Enrique ; Florens, Vincent
Annales mathématiques Blaise Pascal, Tome 18 (2011), p. 1-14 / Harvested from Numdam
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Dans ce travail, nous décrivons les liaisons historiques entre l’étude de variétés de dimension 3 (notamment, la théorie de nœuds) et l’étude de la topologie des courbes planes complexes, dont l’accent est posé sur le rôle des groupes de tresses et des invariantes du type Alexander (torsions, différents incarnations des polynômes d’Alexander). Nous finissons en présentant un example avec des calculs détaillés.

In this work, we describe the historic links between the study of 3-dimensional manifolds (specially knot theory) and the study of the topology of complex plane curves with a particular attention to the role of braid groups and Alexander-like invariants (torsions, different instances of Alexander polynomials). We finish with detailed computations in an example.

Publié le : 2011-01-01
DOI : https://doi.org/10.5802/ambp.292
Classification:  14H50,  14D05,  57M25,  57C10,  20F36
Mots clés: Nœuds, courbes, torsion, polynômes d’Alexander 
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Artal Bartolo, Enrique; Florens, Vincent. Braids in Pau – An Introduction. Annales mathématiques Blaise Pascal, Tome 18 (2011) pp. 1-14. doi : 10.5802/ambp.292. http://gdmltest.u-ga.fr/item/AMBP_2011__18_1_1_0/

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