Vassiliev knot invariants and Chern-Simons perturbation theory to all orders

Communications in Mathematical Physics

Volumn 187, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 261-287

  Altschuler, Daniel ^a   Freidel, Laurent ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

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EID: 0031477142     PISSN: 00103616     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002200050136     Document Type: Article

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