Reidemeister torsion of link complements in a 3-torus | Vestnik Tomskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Matematika i mekhanika – Tomsk State University Journal of Mathematics and Mechanics. 2024. № 87. DOI: 10.17223/19988621/87/2

Reidemeister torsion of link complements in a 3-torus

We prove that the Reidemeister torsion and the twisted Alexander polynomial of the complement of a link in a three-dimensional torus are the same.

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knots, links, three-dimensional torus, twisted Alexander polynomial, Reidemeister torsion, CW-complex, Fox calculus

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Name	Organization	E-mail
Vuong Bao	Tomsk State University	vuonghuubao@live.com

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