Knot Invariants from a Kohno-Kontsevich Integral for Braids

1997/07/10 by Roger Picken, Picken, Roger
Mathematics · #Algebraic structures and combinatorial models #FOS: Mathematics #Geometric and Algebraic Topology #Homotopy and Cohomology in Algebraic Topology #Quantum Algebra (math.QA)

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.q-alg/9707010

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Abstract

An invariant of knots is constructed from an integral for geometric braids due to Kohno and Kontsevich. It takes values in a quotient by a certain ideal of the algebra generated by chord diagrams over the circle.

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