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In this chapter, we begin our account of the Kontsevitch invariant with a discussion of a new type of knotted object called a q-tangle. We discuss various operations and decompositions of q-tangles.
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Jackson, D.M., Moffatt, I. (2019). q-Tangles. 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_15
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