Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
9493174 Journal of Algebra 2005 59 Pages PDF
Abstract
Drinfeld associator is a key tool in computing the Kontsevich integral of knots. A Drinfeld associator is a series in two non-commuting variables, satisfying highly complicated algebraic equations-hexagon and pentagon. The logarithm of a Drinfeld associator lives in the Lie algebra L generated by the symbols a,b,c modulo [a,b]=[b,c]=[c,a]. The main result is a description of compressed associators that obey the compressed pentagon and hexagon in the quotient L/[[L,L],[L,L]]. The key ingredient is an explicit form of Campbell-Baker-Hausdorff formula in the case when all commutators commute.
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