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Knots in Washington XXXV
December 7-9, 2012
George Washington University
Washington, DC, USA

Organizers
Mieczyslaw K. Dabkowski (UT Dallas), Valentina Harizanov (GWU), Jozef H. Przytycki (GWU), Yongwu Rong (GWU), Radmila Sazdanovic (U.Penn), Alexander Shumakovitch (GWU), Hao Wu (GWU)

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Milnor Invariants and Gauss Diagram Formulas
by
Eleanor Abernthy
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Coauthors: Stella Thistlethwaite

I will give a background of Gauss Diagram formulas and their relationship to Vassiliev Invariants. Gussarov proved that every Vassiliev Invariant has a Gauss Diagram formula (not unique) and Polyak and Viro have provided many examples of this. They also showed that the Milnor Invariant on three component links have a Gauss Diagram formula. I will briefly explain this background and then introduce my result of a Gauss Diagram formula for Milnor Invariants on almost trivial links with 4 or more components

Date received: November 16, 2012

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