Vassiliev invariants for braids on surfaces

González-Meneses, Juan; Paris, Luis

doi:10.1090/S0002-9947-03-03116-7

Vassiliev invariants for braids on surfaces
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Abstract:

We show that Vassiliev invariants separate braids on a closed oriented surface, and we exhibit a universal Vassiliev invariant for these braids in terms of chord diagrams labeled by elements of the fundamental group of the surface.

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