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