We prove that Wada’s twisted Alexander polynomial of a knot group associated to any nonabelian -representation is a polynomial. As a corollary, we show that it is always a monic polynomial of degree for a fibered knot of genus .
Complexes of groups over ordered simplicial complexes are generalizations to higher dimensions of graphs of groups. We first relate them to complexes of spaces by considering their classifying space . Then we develop their homological algebra aspects. We define the notions of homology and cohomology of a complex of groups with coefficients in a -module and show the existence of free resolutions. We apply those notions to study extensions of complexes of groups with constant or abelian kernel....
We introduce a notion of a Fox pairing in a group algebra and use Fox pairings to define automorphisms of the Malcev completions of groups. These automorphisms generalize to the algebraic setting the action of the Dehn twists in the group algebras of the fundamental groups of surfaces. This work is inspired by the Kawazumi–Kuno generalization of the Dehn twists to non-simple closed curves on surfaces.
The space which is composed by embedding countably many circles in such a way into the plane that their radii are given by a null-sequence and that they all have a common tangent point is called “The Hawaiian Earrings”. The fundamental group of this space is known to be a subgroup of the inverse limit of the finitely generated free groups, and it is known to be not free. Within the recent move of trying to get hands on the algebraic invariants of non-tame (e.g. non-triangulable) spaces this space...