Kontsevich Integral for Vassiliev Invariants from Chern-Simons Perturbation Theory in the Light-Cone Gauge

Abstract

We analyse the structure of the perturbative series expansion of Chern-Simons gauge theory in the light-cone gauge. After introducing a regularization prescription that entails the consideration of framed knots, we present the general form of the vacuum expectation value of a Wilson loop. The resulting expression turns out to give the same framing dependence as the one obtained using non-perturbative methods and perturbative methods in covariant gauges. It also contains the Kontsevich integral for Vassiliev invariants of framed knots.

30 pages, latex, epsf, 15 figures

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