Reidemeister torsion, twisted Alexander polynomials and fibered knots

Teruaki Kitano, Takayuki Morifuji, Hiroshi Goda
2005 unpublished
As a generalization of a classical result on the Alexander polynomial for fibered knots, we show in this paper that the Reidemeister torsion associated to a certain representation detects fiberedness of knots in the three sphere.
doi:10.5169/seals-60433 fatcat:toeifdbnwfcydmf5ztj7hwtema