{ "id": "math/9801034", "version": "v1", "published": "1998-01-08T12:47:39.000Z", "updated": "1998-01-08T12:47:39.000Z", "title": "The Burau matrix and Fiedler's invariant for a closed braid", "authors": [ "H. R. Morton" ], "comment": "7 pages LaTeX2e. To appear in Topology and its Applications", "journal": "Topology and its Applications 95 (1999), 251-256.", "categories": [ "math.GT" ], "abstract": "It is shown how Fiedler's `small state-sum' invariant for a braid can be calculated from the 2-variable Alexander polynomial of the link which consists of the closed braid together with the braid axis.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "1998-01-08T12:47:39.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "57M25" ], "keywords": [ "closed braid", "fiedlers invariant", "burau matrix", "small state-sum" ], "tags": [ "journal article" ], "note": { "typesetting": "LaTeX", "pages": 7, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "1998math......1034M" } } }