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Extended signatures and link concordance

First online date2025-09-02
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The Levine–Tristram signature admits a µ -variable extension for µ -component links: it was first defined as an integer-valued function on $(S^1\setminus\{1\})^\mu$ , and recently extended to the full torus $\mathbb{T}^\mu$ . The aim of the present article is to study and use this extended signature. Firstly, we show that it is constant on the connected components of the complement of the zero locus of some renormalized Alexander polynomial. Then, we prove that the extended signature is a concordance invariant on an explicit dense subset of $\mathbb{T}^\mu$ . Finally, as an application, we present an infinite family of three-component links with the following property: these links are not concordant to their mirror image, a fact that can be detected neither by the non-extended signatures, nor by the multivariable Alexander polynomial, nor by the Milnor triple linking number.

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CIMASONI, David, FERRETTI, Livio Clemente Emilio, POPOVA, Iuliia. Extended signatures and link concordance. In: Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society, 2025. doi: 10.1017/s0013091525101053
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