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The universal Vassiliev invariant for the Lie superalgebra gl(1|1)

q-alg 2009-10-30 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory Quantum Algebra

Abstract

We compute the universal weight system for Vassiliev invariants coming from the Lie superalgebra gl(1|1) applying the construction of \cite{YB}. This weight system is a function from the space of chord diagrams to the center ZZ of the universal enveloping algebra of gl(1|1), and we find a combinatorial expression for it in terms of the standard generators of ZZ. The resulting knot invariants generalize the Alexander-Conway polynomial.

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@article{arxiv.q-alg/9602014,
  title  = {The universal Vassiliev invariant for the Lie superalgebra gl(1|1)},
  author = {José M Figueroa-O'Farrill and Takashi Kimura and Arkady Vaintrob},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:q-alg/9602014},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

44 pages with figures, wrapped with uufiles, requires epsf.sty -- Added a short section about deframing