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The paper contains a detailed exposition of the construction and properties of the Kontsevich integral invariant, crucial in the study of Vassiliev knot invariants.
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Chmutov, S., Duzhin, S. The Kontsevich Integral. Acta Applicandae Mathematicae 66, 155–190 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1010773818312
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