{
  "id": "1409.1490",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2014-09-04T16:55:38.000Z",
  "updated": "2014-09-04T16:55:38.000Z",
  "title": "Non-triviality of the $M$-degree of the $A$-polynomial",
  "authors": [
    "Hans U. Boden"
  ],
  "comment": "5 pages",
  "journal": "Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 142 (2014) 2173-2177",
  "categories": [
    "math.GT"
  ],
  "abstract": "This note gives a proof that the $A$-polynomial of any nontrivial knot in $S^3$ has nontrivial $M$-degree.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2014-09-04T16:55:38.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "subjects": [
      "57M27",
      "57M25",
      "57M05"
    ],
    "keywords": [
      "polynomial",
      "non-triviality"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "publisher": "AMS",
      "journal": "Proc. Amer. Math. Soc."
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 5,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "2014arXiv1409.1490B"
    }
  }
}