Knot and link invariants and moduli space of parabolic bundles

Communications in Contemporary Mathematics

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 501-531

  Li, Weiping ^a  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

A polynomial; Link signature; Parabolic bundle; SL2(C) character

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044528793     PISSN: 02191997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0219199701000470     Document Type: Article

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