The Decategorification of Sutured Floer Homology
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چکیده
We define a torsion invariant for balanced sutured manifolds and show that it agrees with the Euler characteristic of sutured Floer homology. The torsion is easily computed and shares many properties of the usual Alexander polynomial.
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