Departamento de Álgebra, Facultad de Matemáticas, Universidad de Sevilla, c/ Tarfia s/n, 41012 Sevilla, Spain ; Université de Bourgogne, Laboratoire de Topologie, UMR 5584 du CNRS, B.P. 47870, 21078 - Dijon Cedex, France
Abstract:
We show that Vassiliev invariants separate braids on a closed oriented surface, and we exhibit a universal Vassiliev invariant for these braids in terms of chord diagrams labeled by elements of the fundamental group of the surface.