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The configuration space integral for links in \(\mathbb{R}^3\) (English)
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3 June 2003
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The paper is a self-contained description of the configuration space integral for links in \(\mathbb{R}^3\). Like the Kontsevich integral, the configuration space integral for a link takes values in an algebra of diagrams, which are graphs with univalent and trivalent vertices. To each diagram \(\Gamma\) one associates a configuration space \(C_\Gamma\) and its compactification \(\bar C_\Gamma\), which is a manifold with corners. Then a linear combination over all diagrams \(\Gamma\) of certain integrals over \(\bar C_\Gamma\) is an invariant of links (up to a factor controlled by a quantity called the anomaly). The compactification \(\bar C_\Gamma\) defined in the paper is new. A rationality result about the coefficients of diagrams is given.
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Feynman diagrams
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Vassiliev invariants
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configuration space
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compactification
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