Meta-nilpotent quotients of mapping-torus groups and two topological invariants of quadratic forms

Abstract

We determine the center of a meta-nilpotent quotient of a mapping-torus group. As a corollary, we introduce two invariants, which are quadratic forms, of knots and of mapping classes.

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