{ "id": "math/0212187", "version": "v3", "published": "2002-12-13T14:40:02.000Z", "updated": "2003-01-13T19:49:23.000Z", "title": "Blanchfield and Seifert algebra in high dimensional knot theory", "authors": [ "Andrew Ranicki" ], "comment": "30 pages, LATEX. v3: minor revision of v2 (which was itself a minor revision of v1)", "journal": "Moscow Mathematical Journal 3, 1333-1367 (2003)", "categories": [ "math.GT", "math.AT" ], "abstract": "Novikov initiated the study of the algebraic properties of quadratic forms over polynomial extensions by a far-reaching analogue of the Pontrjagin-Thom transversality construction of a Seifert surface of a knot and the infinite cyclic cover of the knot exterior. In this paper the analogy is applied to explain the relationship between the Seifert forms over a ring with involution and Blanchfield forms over the Laurent polynomial extension.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v3", "updated": "2003-01-13T19:49:23.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "57R67" ], "keywords": [ "high dimensional knot theory", "seifert algebra", "blanchfield", "laurent polynomial extension", "infinite cyclic cover" ], "tags": [ "journal article" ], "note": { "typesetting": "LaTeX", "pages": 30, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2002math.....12187R" } } }