Vassiliev invariants for links from Chern-Simons perturbation theory

Nuclear Physics B

Volumn 488, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 677-718

  Alvarez, M ^a   Labastida, J M F ^b   Perez E ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

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EID: 0031585021     PISSN: 05503213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0550-3213(96)00689-X     Document Type: Article

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