Alexander Polynomial - Relations To Satellite Operations

Relations To Satellite Operations

If a knot is a satellite knot with companion i.e.: there exists an embedding such that where is an unknotted solid torus, then . Where is the integer that represents in .

Examples: For a connect-sum . If is an untwisted Whitehead double, then .

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