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The paper is for a general audience and may serve as a preliminary introduction to the theory of finite-type invariants.
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Matveev, S., Polyak, M. Finite-Type Invariants of Cubic Complexes. Acta Applicandae Mathematicae 75, 125–132 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1022383927656
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