Vassiliev invariants of type two for a link

Murakami, Hitoshi

doi:10.1090/S0002-9939-96-03628-3

Vassiliev invariants of type two for a link
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Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 124 (1996), 3889-3896 Request permission

Abstract:

We show that any type two Vassiliev invariant of a link can be expressed as a linear combination of the second coefficients of the Conway polynomials of its components and a quadratic expression of linking numbers.

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