Christine Lescop's articles and preprints

Preprints

• Splitting formulae for the Kontsevich-Kuperberg-Thurston invariant for rational homology 3-spheres, math.GT/0411431

• On the Kontsevich-Kuperberg-Thurston construction of a configuration-space invariant for rational homology 3-spheres, math.GT/0411088

• On the cube of the equivariant linking pairing for knots and 3--manifolds of rank one, arXiv:1008.5026 pdf

Lecture notes

• Introduction to finite type invariants of knots and 3-manifolds, preliminary version, Meknès ICPAM-ICTP research school, May 2012.

• Notes de cours de DEA 2001.

• Introduction to the Kontsevich Integral of Framed Tangles.
  Lecture Notes of the Institut Fourier 1999 Summer School.

Publications

• Knot invariants derived from the equivariant linking pairing, AMS/IP Studies in Advanced Mathematics, Volume 50, (2011) 217-242. arXiv:1001.4474

• Surgery formulae for finite type invariants of rational homology $3$--spheres, Algebraic and Geometric Topology 9 (2009) 979-1047. math.GT/0703347

• Clover calculus for homology 3-spheres via basic algebraic topology, (with Emmanuel Auclair) Algebraic and Geometric Topology 5 (2005), paper no. 5, pages 71-106.

• Knot invariants and configuration space integrals.
  Lecture notes for the July 2003 Summer School in Villa de Leyva (Columbia). Lecture Notes in Physics 668, 1-57 (2005) Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2006 www.springerlink.com

• On configuration space integrals for links,
  Geometry and Topology Monographs Volume 4 (2002): Invariants of knots and 3-manifolds (Kyoto 2001) 183-199.

• About the uniqueness of the Kontsevich Integral,
  Journal of Knot Theory and its Ramifications 11 5 (2002) 759-780.
  The preprint math.GT/0004094 contains the text of the article and one additional section.

• A sum formula for the Casson-Walker invariant,
  Inventiones Math., 133 (1998) 613-681.

• On the Casson invariant,
  Proceedings of the European Congress of Mathematicians, Budapest 1996, Birkhäuser, 168 (1998) 296-312.

• Quelques présentations des variétés de dimension 3,
  femmes et maths, 4 (2000) 19-29.

• On the kernel of the Casson invariant,
  Topology 37 (1998) 25-37.

• Global surgery formula for the Casson-Walker invariant,
  Annals of mathematics Studies, Princeton University Press, 140 (1996) 150 pages.

• Une formule de somme pour l'invariant de Casson-Walker,
  C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris Série I, 320 (1995) 843-846.

• Un calcul élémentaire de l'invariant de Casson des sphères d'homologie entière fibrées de Seifert à trois fibres exceptionnelles,
  appendix to the article of Lucien Guillou and Alexis Marin :
  Notes sur l'invariant de Casson des sphères d'homologie de dimension 3, L'Enseignement Math., 38 (1992) 233-290.

• Un algorithme pour calculer l'invariant de Walker,
  Bulletin de la SMF, 118 (1990) 363-376.

• Invariant de Casson-Walker des sphères d'homologie rationnelle fibrées de Seifert,
  C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris Série I, 310 (1990) 727-730.

Talks

• Images shown after a talk at the La Mure highschool, November 2010.

• On the Pierre Vogel algebra of Jacobi diagrams, IHP Paris, October 2010.

• Chern-Simons Gauge Theory: 20 years after, Bonn, August 2009.

• Graphic Surgery Formulae for finite type invariants of 3-manifolds, CIRM, June 2007.