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Knots in Washington XXXIV; Categorification of Knots, Quantum Invariants and Quantum Computing
March 14-16, 2012
George Washington University
Washington, DC, USA

Organizers
Valentina Harizanov (GWU),Mark Kidwell (U.S. Naval Academy and GWU), Jozef H. Przytycki (GWU), Yongwu Rong (GWU), Radmila Sazdanovic (U.Penn), Alexander Shumakovitch (GWU), Hao Wu (GWU)

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Vassiliev invariants from parity mappings
by
Heather A. Dye
McKendree University

A parity mapping assigns a weight to each chord in a Gauss diagram. The parity of the chords is used to construct invariants. In particular, we can construct a family of Vassiliev invariants.

Date received: March 8, 2012

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