Some comparisons of Blanchfield pairings and cohomology pairings of knots

Takefumi Nosaka

Published 2020-12-25Version 1

We study some comparison between a bilinear cohomology pairing in local coefficients and the Blanchfield pairing of a knot. We show that the former pairing is an $S$-equivalent invariant, and give a criterion to a relation between the two pairings. We also observe that the pairings of some knots are equivalent, and that the pairings of other knots are not equivalent.