The parity of the Cochran–Harvey invariants of 3–manifolds, preprint (2005), to be published by the Trans
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| Venue: | Amer. Math. Soc |
| Citations: | 5 - 5 self |
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@ARTICLE{Friedl_theparity,
author = {Stefan Friedl and Taehee Kim},
title = {The parity of the Cochran–Harvey invariants of 3–manifolds, preprint (2005), to be published by the Trans},
journal = {Amer. Math. Soc},
year = {}
}
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Abstract
Abstract. Given a finitely presented group G and an epimorphism φ: G → Z Cochran and Harvey defined a sequence of invariants δn(G, φ) ∈ N0, n ∈ N0, which can be viewed as the degrees of higher–order Alexander polynomials. Cochran and Harvey showed that (up to a minor modification) this is a never decreasing sequence of numbers if G is the fundamental group of a 3–manifold with empty or toroidal boundary. Furthermore they showed that these invariants give lower bounds on the Thurston norm. Using a certain Cohn localization and the duality of Reidemeister torsion we show that for a fundamental group of a 3–manifold any jump in the sequence is necessarily even. This answers in particular a question of Cochran. Furthermore using results of Turaev we show that under a mild extra hypothesis the parity of the Cochran–Harvey invariant agrees with the parity of the Thurston norm. 1.
