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A geometric characterization of Vassiliev invariants
It is a well-known paradigm to consider Vassiliev invariants as polynomials on the set of knots. We prove the following characterization: a rational knot invariant is a Vassiliev invariant of degree $\le m$ if and only if it is a polynomial of degree $\le m$ on every geometric sequence of …