Reidemeister torsion in knot theory

CONTENTS Introduction § 0. Preliminary material § 1. Milnor torsion and the Alexander polynomial § 2. Proof of Theorems 1.1.1, 1.1.2, and 1.1.3 § 3. Refined torsion and the refined Alexander function § 4. The Conway link function § 5. The torsion ω and the polynomial δ § 6. Proof of Theorem 5.1.1 Appendix. Duality theorems for torsions References