Abstract We provide explicit formulae for the Alexander polynomial of pretzel knots and establish several immediate corollaries, including the characterisation of pretzel knots with a trivial Alexander polynomial. As an application, we construct a new family of knots that are topologically slice, but not smoothly slice.
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