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   • CommentTimeDec 27th 2019
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   Author: Urs
   Format: MarkdownItexstarting something -- not done yet but need to save <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/universal+Vassiliev+invariant/1">v1</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/universal+Vassiliev+invariant">current</a>

   starting something – not done yet but need to save

   v1, current

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   • CommentTimeDec 28th 2019
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   Author: Urs
   Format: MarkdownItexhave added various further references <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/diff/universal+Vassiliev+invariant/3">diff</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/universal+Vassiliev+invariant/3">v3</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/universal+Vassiliev+invariant">current</a>

   have added various further references

   diff, v3, current

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   • CommentTimeDec 29th 2019
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   Author: Urs
   Format: MarkdownItexfinally added this pointer: * [[Dror Bar-Natan]], Section 4.4.2 of: _On the Vassiliev knot invariants_, Topology Volume 34, Issue 2, April 1995, Pages 423-472 (<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/0040-9383(95)93237-2">doi:10.1016/0040-9383(95)93237-2</a>, [pdf](https://www.math.toronto.edu/drorbn/papers/OnVassiliev/OnVassiliev.pdf)) <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/diff/universal+Vassiliev+invariant/4">diff</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/universal+Vassiliev+invariant/4">v4</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/universal+Vassiliev+invariant">current</a>

   finally added this pointer:

   • Dror Bar-Natan, Section 4.4.2 of: On the Vassiliev knot invariants, Topology Volume 34, Issue 2, April 1995, Pages 423-472 (doi:10.1016/0040-9383(95)93237-2, pdf)

   diff, v4, current

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   Format: MarkdownItexadded pointer to comparison between the two main [[universal Vassiliev invariants]]: the [[Kontsevich integral]] and the [[Wilson loop observable]] of [[perturbative quantization of 3d Chern-Simons theory|perturbatively quantized]] [[Chern-Simons theory]]: * [[Christine Lescop]], _On configuration space integrals for links_, Geom. Topol. Monogr. 4 (2002) 183-199 ([arXiv:math/0211062](https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0211062)) <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/diff/universal+Vassiliev+invariant/6">diff</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/universal+Vassiliev+invariant/6">v6</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/universal+Vassiliev+invariant">current</a>

   added pointer to comparison between the two main universal Vassiliev invariants: the Kontsevich integral and the Wilson loop observable of perturbatively quantized Chern-Simons theory:

   • Christine Lescop, On configuration space integrals for links, Geom. Topol. Monogr. 4 (2002) 183-199 (arXiv:math/0211062)

   diff, v6, current

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   Author: David_Corfield
   Format: MarkdownItexSo much of this work takes place through the 90s. Did people feel they'd met their objectives, or did they just move on to other things?

   So much of this work takes place through the 90s. Did people feel they’d met their objectives, or did they just move on to other things?

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   • CommentTimeJan 12th 2020
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   Format: MarkdownItexIt seems to me that the mathematical Chern-Simons community has not followed the string community development where 3d Chern-Simons theory morphed from but a dual description of 2dCFT to a sector of brane physics, as in AdS3/CFT2 duality and the 3d/3d correspondence.

   It seems to me that the mathematical Chern-Simons community has not followed the string community development where 3d Chern-Simons theory morphed from but a dual description of 2dCFT to a sector of brane physics, as in AdS3/CFT2 duality and the 3d/3d correspondence.

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   • CommentTimeJan 28th 2020
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   Author: Urs
   Format: MarkdownItexadded pointer to this textbook that just appeared as a preprint: * [[Christine Lescop]], _Invariants of links and 3-manifolds from graph configurations_ ([arXiv:2001.09929](https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.09929)) <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/diff/universal+Vassiliev+invariant/7">diff</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/revision/universal+Vassiliev+invariant/7">v7</a>, <a href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/universal+Vassiliev+invariant">current</a>

   added pointer to this textbook that just appeared as a preprint:

   • Christine Lescop, Invariants of links and 3-manifolds from graph configurations (arXiv:2001.09929)

   diff, v7, current