On the determinant of checkerboard colorable virtual knots

Abstract

For classical knots, Murasugi showed that the determinant modulo $8$ is classified by the Arf invariant. Boden and Karimi introduced a determinant for checkerboard colorable virtual knots. We prove that this determinant modulo $8$ is classified by the coefficient of $z^2$ in the ascending polynomial, an extension of the Conway polynomial for classical knots.

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