1999/09/24 by Simon Willerton, Willerton, Simon
Mathematics · #Advanced Combinatorial Mathematics #FOS: Mathematics #Geometric Topology (math.GT) #Geometric and Algebraic Topology #Homotopy and Cohomology in Algebraic Topology #math.GT
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.math/9909151
17 pages, many figures, to appear in the proceedings of Knots in Hellas 1998, cross-listed to Quantum Algebra. Feb 22nd 2000: sign error in definition of STU relation corrected
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This paper is part expository and part presentation of calculational results. The target space of the Kontsevich integral for knots is a space of diagrams; this space has various algebraic structures which are described here. These are utilized with Le's theorem on the behaviour of the Kontsevich integral under cabling and with the Melvin-Morton Theorem, to obtain, in the Kontsevich integral for torus knots, both an explicit expression up to degree five and the general coefficients of the wheel diagrams.