Braid commutators and Vassiliev invariants

Pacific Journal of Mathematics

Volumn 174, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 269-276

  Stanford, Ted ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 0001717969     PISSN: 00308730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2140/pjm.1996.174.269     Document Type: Article

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