GAUSS SUM INVARIANTS, VASSILIEV INVARIANTS AND BRAIDING SEQUENCES

We introduce a new approach to Vassiliev invariants. This approach deals with Vassiliev invariants directly on knots and does not make use of diagrams. We give a series of applications of this approach, (re)proving some new and known facts on Vassiliev invariants.

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