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KnotDataの主要な出典を以下に挙げる．

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Alvarez, M. and J. Labastida. "Vassiliev Invariants for Torus Knots." Journal of Knot Theory and Its Ramifications 5, no. 6 (1996): 779–803.

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Jones, V. F. R. "Hecke Algebra Representations of Braid Groups and Link Polynomials." Annals of Mathematics. Second Series 126, no. 2 (1987): 335–388.

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