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Finite-type 1-cocycles of knots given by Polyak-Viro formulas

Geometric Topology 2015-09-16 v1

Abstract

We present a new method to produce simple formulas for 1-cocycles of knots over the integers, inspired by Polyak-Viro's formulas for finite-type knot invariants. We conjecture that these formulas always represent finite-type cohomology classes in the sense of Vassiliev. An example of degree 3 is studied, and shown to coincide over Z/2 with the Teiblum-Turchin cocycle v_3^1.

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@article{arxiv.1403.3418,
  title  = {Finite-type 1-cocycles of knots given by Polyak-Viro formulas},
  author = {Arnaud Mortier},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1403.3418},
  year   = {2015}
}

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