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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