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This chapter describes how a weight system can be obtained from a Lie algebra and a representation of it. Particular attention is paid to the combinatorics of the weight system coming from sl(2) and its standard representation.
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Jackson, D.M., Moffatt, I. (2019). Lie Algebra Weight Systems. In: An Introduction to Quantum and Vassiliev Knot Invariants. CMS Books in Mathematics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05213-3_14
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