Seifert surfaces, Commutators and Vassiliev invariants

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We show that the Vassiliev invariants of a knot K, are obstructions to finding a regular Seifert surface, S, whose complement looks "simple" (e.g. like the complement of a disc) to the lower central series of its fundamental group.
35 pages, 13 Figures. To appear in the J. of Knot Theory and its Ramifications (special volume in honor of L. Kauffman)

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