M306, Hong-Jing Hall, NCU
(中央大學鴻經館 M306)
On the Topology of the Coefficients of the Alexander- Conway Polynomial of Knots
C. Michael Tsau (Saint Louis University)
Abstract
Using a special form of spanning surface for a knot, we give a formula
for the coefficient of the 
-term of the Alexander-Conway polynomial
in terms of the sum of determinants of the blocks of 2x2 submatrices of
the Seifert matrix, from which the topological meaning of the coefficient
is revealed.
