On the casson knot invariant

Journal of Knot Theory and its Ramifications

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 711-738

  Polyak, Michael ^a   Viro, Oleg ^b,c  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c STEKLOV MATHEMATICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

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EID: 0035614267     PISSN: 02182165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218216501001116     Document Type: Article

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