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Vassiliev invariants for braids on surfaces

Geometric Topology 2007-05-23 v2 Group Theory

Abstract

We show that Vassiliev invariants separate braids on a closed oriented surface, and we exhibit an universal Vassiliev invariant for these braids in terms of chord diagrams labeled by elements of the fundamental group of the considered surface.

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@article{arxiv.math/0006014,
  title  = {Vassiliev invariants for braids on surfaces},
  author = {Juan Gonzalez-Meneses and Luis Paris},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0006014},
  year   = {2007}
}

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22 pages, 9 figures