The unknotting number and classical invariants II
Abstract
In [BF12] the authors associated to a knot K an invariant nR(K) which is defined using the Blanchfield form and which gives a lower bound on the unknotting number. In this paper we express nR(K) in terms of Levine-Tristram signatures and nullities of K. In the proof we also show that the Blanchfield form with real coefficients is diagonalizable.
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