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Finite Type Invariants of w-Knotted Objects IV: Some Computations

Dror Bar-Natan
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In the previous three papers in this series, [WKO1]-[WKO3] (arXiv:1405.1956, arXiv:1405.1955, and to appear), Z. Dancso and I studied a certain theory of "homomorphic expansions" of "w-knotted objects", a certain class of knotted objects in 4-dimensional space. When all layers of interpretation are stripped off, what remains is a study of a certain number of equations written in a family of spaces $A^w$, closely related to degree-completed free Lie algebras and to degree-completed spaces of cyclic words. The purpose of this paper is to introduce mathematical and computational tools that enable explicit computations (up to a certain degree) in these $A^w$ spaces and to use these tools to solve the said equations and verify some properties of their solutions, and as a consequence, to carry out the computation (up to a certain degree) of certain knot-theoretic invariants discussed in [WKO1]-[WKO3] and in my related paper [KBH] (arXiv:1308.1721).

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Dror Bar-Natan. 2015-11-17. Finite Type Invariants of w-Knotted Objects IV: Some Computations. https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.05624

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