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A NOTE ON DEGREES OF TWISTED ALEXANDER POLYNOMIALS II

  • Received : 2012.04.16
  • Published : 2013.05.31
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Abstract

In this short note we discuss degrees of twisted Alexander polynomials and demonstrate an explicit example of a closed 3-manifold which is related to the degree formula due to Friedl, Kim and Kitayama.

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