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Professor Alexandru I. Suciu

MTH G721 - Readings in Topology

Reidemeister Torsion


Spring 2004

Tuesdays 10:30 AM--12:00 Noon, in 441 LA
We study Reidemeister torsion and several of its variants, as well as applications to low-dimensional topology. Suggested reading list:
  • John Milnor, A duality theorem for Reidemeister torsion, Ann. Math. 76 (1962), 137--147.
  • John Milnor, Whitehead torsion, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 72 (1966), 358--426.
  • Vladimir Turaev, Reidemeister torsion in knot theory, Russian Math. Surveys 41 (1986), 119--182.
  • Paul Kirk and Charles Livingston, Twisted Alexander invariants, Reidemeister torsion, and the Casson-Gordon invariants, Topology 38 (1999), 635--661.
  • Andrew Ranicki, Notes on Reidemeister Torsion, 1997.
  • Vladimir Turaev, Introduction to combinatorial torsions, Lectures in Mathematics ETH Zürich, Birkhäuser, 2001.
  • Vladimir Turaev, Torsions of 3-mimensional manifolds, Progress in Mathematics, Vol. 208, Birkhäuser, 2002.
  • Liviu Nicolaescu, The Reidemeister torsion of 3-manifolds, de Gruyter Studies in Mathematics, Vol 30, de Gruyter, 2003.   See also his Notes on the Reidemeister Torsion.
  • Hiroshi Goda, Teruaki Kitano, Takayuki Morifuji, Reidemeister torsion, twisted Alexander polynomial and fibered knots, math.GT/0311155.
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