{ "id": "math/0406172", "version": "v1", "published": "2004-06-09T11:42:50.000Z", "updated": "2004-06-09T11:42:50.000Z", "title": "A geometric construction of the Conway potential function", "authors": [ "David Cimasoni" ], "comment": "21 pages, 27 figures", "journal": "Comment. Math. Helv. 79 (2004), no. 1, 124--146", "categories": [ "math.GT" ], "abstract": "We give a geometric construction of the multivariable Conway potential function for colored links. In the case of a single color, it is Kauffman's definition of the Conway polynomial in terms of a Seifert matrix.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2004-06-09T11:42:50.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "57M25", "57M27" ], "keywords": [ "geometric construction", "multivariable conway potential function", "seifert matrix", "single color", "kauffmans definition" ], "tags": [ "journal article" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 21, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2004math......6172C" } } }