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The universal functorial Lefschetz invariant

Wolfgang Lück (1999)

Fundamenta Mathematicae

We introduce the universal functorial Lefschetz invariant for endomorphisms of finite CW-complexes in terms of Grothendieck groups of endomorphisms of finitely generated free modules. It encompasses invariants like Lefschetz number, its generalization to the Lefschetz invariant, Nielsen number and L 2 -torsion of mapping tori. We examine its behaviour under fibrations.

The writhes of a virtual knot

Shin Satoh, Kenta Taniguchi (2014)

Fundamenta Mathematicae

Kauffman introduced a fundamental invariant of a virtual knot called the odd writhe. There are several generalizations of the odd writhe, such as the index polynomial and the odd writhe polynomial. In this paper, we define the n-writhe for each non-zero integer n, which unifies these invariants, and study various properties of the n-writhe.

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