IUMJ

Title: Poincar\'e duality and degrees of twisted Alexander polynomials

Authors: Taehee Kim, Stefan Friedl and Takahiro Kitayama

Issue: Volume 61 (2012), Issue 1, 147-192

Abstract:

Generalizing results of Turaev, we prove duality theorems for twisted Reidemeister torsions and twisted Alexander polynomials. As a corollary we determine the parity of the degrees of twisted Alexander polynomials of 3-manifolds in many cases.