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The admissible Wada deleted minor equals based twisted torsion
Statement
Assume the Axiom of Choice convention of the twisted-chain definition. Let be a certified based deficiency-one exterior spine with one -cell, -cells and -cells, let have , let , and let be torsion over . Form the Fox block matrix and a chosen Wada column quotient with . Then the fraction-field complex is acyclic, , and equals its based twisted Reidemeister torsion in . Every admissible deleted column gives the same class. This conclusion applies only to the specified cellular spine; an abstract presentation of the same group is insufficient.
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Facts & Assumptions
Given: AC; the certified based deficiency-one exterior spine; a positive-rank free abelian deck epimorphism; a field-valued representation; torsion degree-one homology over the Laurent ring; and an index with .
AC is inherited from the maximal-abelian-cover convention. The Axiom of Choice
has blocks , , and only for . The admissible Wada quotient of a deficiency-one exterior spine
With row coefficient vectors, sends to for , and acts on the right by the Fox block matrix . The evaluated Fox Jacobian is the twisted cellular boundary
Under the positive-rank deck and cell-count hypotheses, torsion implies the fraction-field complex is acyclic. Torsion first homology forces twisted acyclicity for a deficiency-one exterior spine
Changing cell lifts, orientations or certified simple-spine structure changes the torsion only by . Based twisted torsion changes only by determinant and deck units
For an acyclic based complex, torsion is the alternating product of determinants of boundary bases and their lifts in the chosen cellular bases. Twisted chain complex and based Reidemeister torsion for link exteriors
Proof
By [A1] and [F3], the fraction-field complex is acyclic. Therefore is injective and its image is , both of dimension .
In the ordered -cell basis, [F2] gives the stacked blocks ; a row vector lies in its kernel exactly when . Since is invertible, projection onto all non- blocks is an isomorphism: for arbitrary non- row coordinates , the unique missing coordinate is . Thus is an isomorphism, and its row-coefficient matrix is by [F2]. In particular .
Let be the standard cellular bases. In degree zero choose . In degree one choose , and lift to degree one using the -block and zero in the other blocks. After moving the -block to the final position, the matrix of in is block triangular with diagonal blocks and ; its determinant is . The degree-zero and degree-two torsion brackets equal , so [F5] gives . The sign lies in by [F4], proving the equality of classes.
The same construction applies to every index with . Each quotient class equals the single torsion class of the same based complex by step 3.1; hence all admissible columns give the same class in .
Depends on
- Twisted chain complex and based Reidemeister torsion for link exteriors
- The admissible Wada quotient of a deficiency-one exterior spine
- Torsion first homology forces twisted acyclicity for a deficiency-one exterior spine
- The evaluated Fox Jacobian is the twisted cellular boundary
- Based twisted torsion changes only by determinant and deck units
- The field of fractions $\operatorname{Frac}(D)=(D\setminus\{0\})^{-1}D$ of an integral domain
- $\operatorname{Frac}(D)$ is a field and $d\mapsto d/1$ embeds the integral domain $D$
- The Axiom of Choice
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Sources
- Paul Kirk and Charles Livingston, Twisted Alexander Invariants, Reidemeister Torsion, and Casson–Gordon Invariants, Theorem 4.1 and Lemma 4.2 (standard reference, not scraped)
- Anthony Conway, Burau Maps and Twisted Alexander Polynomials, §§2.3–2.4 (standard reference, not scraped)
- Andrew Ranicki, Notes on Reidemeister Torsion, Theorem 15 (standard reference, not scraped)