On the Melvin-Morton-Rozansky conjecture

Inventiones Mathematicae

Volumn 125, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 103-133

  Bar Natan, Dror ^a,c   Garoufalidis, Stavros ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

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EID: 0030553083     PISSN: 00209910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002220050070     Document Type: Article

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