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Vassiliev invariants and the Hopf algebra of chord diagrams

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

Simon Willerton
Simon Willerton
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Edinburgh, King's Buildings, Edinburgh EH9 3JZ
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Abstract

This paper is closely related to Bar-Natan's work, and fills in some of the gaps in [1]. Following his analogy of the extension of knot invariants to knots with double points to the notion of multivariate calculus on polynomials, we introduce a new notation which facilitates the formulation of a Leibniz type formula for the product of two Vassiliev invariants. This leads us to see how Bar-Natan's co-product of chord diagrams corresponds to multiplication of Vassiliev invariants. We also include a proof that the multiplication in is a consequence of Bar-Natan's 4T relation.

The last part of this paper consists of a proof that the space of weight systems is a sub-Hopf algebra of the space *, by means of the canonical projection.

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Research Article
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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 119 , Issue 1 , January 1996 , pp. 55 - 65
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1996

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