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On Universal Vassiliev Invariants

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-28 v1 Quantum Algebra

Abstract

Using properties of ordered exponentials and the definition of the Drinfeld associator as a monodromy operator for the Knizhnik-Zamolodchikov equations, we prove that the analytic and the combinatorial definitions of the universal Vassiliev invariants of links are equivalent.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9403053,
  title  = {On Universal Vassiliev Invariants},
  author = {Daniel Altschuler and Laurent Freidel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9403053},
  year   = {2009}
}

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33 pages

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