INVARIANTS OF CLOSED BRAIDS VIA COUNTING SURFACES
INVARIANTS OF CLOSED BRAIDS VIA COUNTING SURFACES
A Gauss diagram is a simple, combinatorial way to present a link. It is known that any Vassiliev invariant may be obtained from a Gauss diagram formula that involves counting subdiagrams of certain combinatorial types. In this paper we present simple formulas for an infinite family of invariants in terms …