Introduction to twisted Alexander polynomials and related topics

Abstract

This article is based on the lectures in the Winter Braids V (Pau, Feb. 2015). Main puposel of this is to explain how to compute twisted Alexander polynomials for non-experts.

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• The (twisted/$L^2$)-Alexander polynomial of ideally triangulated 3-manifolds