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Diagram Invariants of Knots and the Kontsevich Integral

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This paper is devoted to the solution of the integration problem for higher derivatives of finite-type invariants (so-called weight systems) up to real invariants defined on the space of knots.

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Translated from Sovremennaya Matematika i Ee Prilozheniya (Contemporary Mathematics and Its Applications), Vol. 19, Topology and Noncommutative Geometry, 2004.

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Tyurina, S.D. Diagram Invariants of Knots and the Kontsevich Integral. J Math Sci 134, 2017–2071 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10958-006-0095-9

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