# On configuration space integrals for links

@inproceedings{Lescop2002OnCS,
title={On configuration space integrals for links},
author={C. Lescop},
year={2002}
}
• C. Lescop
• Published 21 September 2002
• Mathematics
We give an introductory survey on the universal Vassiliev in- variant called the perturbative series expansion of the Chern{Simons theory of links in euclidean space, and on its relation with the Kontsevich inte- gral. We also prove an original geometric property of the anomaly of Bott, Taubes, Altschuler, Freidel and D. Thurston, that allowed Poirier to prove that the Chern{Simons series and the Kontsevich integral coincide up to degree 6. AMS Classication 57M27; 57M25, 17B37, 81T18
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