Partial-dual genus polynomial as a weight system

Abstract

We prove that the partial-dual genus polynomial considered as a function on chord diagrams satisfies the four-term relation. Thus it is a weight system from the theory of Vassiliev knot invariants.

arXiv commentFinal version for publication in Communications in Mathematics

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