On the Combinatorial Structure of 
Primitive Vassiliev Invariants, III 
A Lower Bound

Communications in Contemporary Mathematics, Vol. 2, No. 4, 2000, pp. 579-590

Oliver T. Dasbach

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Preprint available: arXiv:math/9806086

Abstract:

We prove that the dimension of the space of primitive Vassiliev invariants of degree n
grows - as n tends to infinity - faster than $e^{c \sqrt n}$ for any $c< \pi \sqrt {\frac 2 3}$.
The proof relies on the use of the weight systems coming from the Lie algebra gl(N).


Keywords:

Vassiliev invariants, Invariants of finite type