Invariants of Knots and Links via Integral Matrices
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This is a brief summary of the recent works joint with Dr. Sang Youl Lee, on the Seifert matrices and the (modi ed) Goeritz matrices of knots and links and their invariants: the Alexander polynomial, the Minkowski unit, the signature, the nullity, and the determinant of a knot and a link. We introduce the relationship between the modi ed Goeritz matrices of 2-peroidc links and those of their factor links and some properties of the 2-parallel version invarants of the Minkowski units, the signature, the nullity, and the square free of the determinant of a knot and a link.
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