• Title of article

    Shadow formula for the Vassiliev invariant of degree two

  • Author/Authors

    Shumakovitch، نويسنده , , Alexander، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 1997
  • Pages
    21
  • From page
    449
  • To page
    469
  • Abstract
    In this paper I present the Vassiliev invariant of degree 2 of a knot as a polynomial of degree 4 in gleams of a shadow presenting the knot. The coefficients of this polynomial involve Strangeness (a numerical characteristic of a generic immersion of the circle into the plane introduced by Arnold [1]) and a spherical index. The latter is a characteristic of a generic immersed circle on the sphere with three holes, which is invariant with respect to homotopy. I define it by an explicit combinatorial formula.
  • Journal title
    Topology
  • Serial Year
    1997
  • Journal title
    Topology
  • Record number

    1544684