Twisted Alexander polynomials detect the unknot
Daniel S Silver, Susan G Williams
math.GTarXiv:math/0604084
Abstract
The group of a nontrivial knot admits a finite permutation representation such that the corresponding twisted Alexander polynomial is not a unit.
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