Remarks on the Vassiliev knot invariants coming from \(sl_ 2\)
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Remarks on the Vassiliev knot invariants coming from \(sl_ 2\)
zbMATH Open document ID: 0876.57013
DOI: 10.1016/0040-9383(95)00071-2
published in: Topology
publication date: 1997-11-26T00:00:00Z
review text: The paper describes the combinatorial approach to Vassiliev's knot invariants via weight systems on chord diagrams for the Lie algebra \(sl_2\) with an invariant bilinear form \(Tr\) which can be interpreted as a trace. The main result (Theorem 6) gives a 3-term skein-type relation for so-called ``Japanese character diagrams'', JCD, which expresses \(W(X)\), \(X\) a JCD, by a sum of two such terms on JCD's with less vertices. The JCD's are introduced as a generalization of Bar-Natans ``Chinese character diagrams'' (CCD) [\textit{D. Bar-Natan}, On the Vassiliev knot invariants, Topology 34, 423-472 (1995)]. As a consequence of Theorem 6 several 6-term relations for chord diagrams are derived. The paper contains furthermore properties of the weight system of an arbitrary simple Lie algebra and the primitive part of the algebra of chord diagrams. The described approach depends on Kontsevich's construction of weight systems.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 57M25
zbMATH DE Number: 938860
zbMATH Keywords: Vassiliev's knot invariants
zbMATH Keywords: weight systems
zbMATH Keywords: chord diagrams
zbMATH Keywords: Lie algebra \(sl_ 2\)
author: S. Chmutov
author: A. Varchenko
reviewed by: Gerhard Burde
MaRDI profile type: Publication
full work available at URL: 0040-9383(95)00071-2
OpenAlex ID: W2029324745
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