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Vassiliev Invariants and Gleam Polynomials

q-alg 2008-02-03 v1 Quantum Algebra

Abstract

It was shown by Goussarov that Vassiliev invariants are polynomials in the gleams for a fixed Turaev shadow. In this paper we show that Vassiliev invariants are almost characterized by this fact. We also prove that the space of knot invariants which are polynomials in the gleams is bigger than the Vassiliev subspace.

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@article{arxiv.q-alg/9605019,
  title  = {Vassiliev Invariants and Gleam Polynomials},
  author = {Urs Burri},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:q-alg/9605019},
  year   = {2008}
}

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4 pages, LaTex file

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