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Abstract
The construction of quantum knot invariants from solutions of the
Yang--Baxter equation (R-matrices) is reviewed with the emphasis on a class of
R-matrices admitting an interpretation in intrinsically three-dimensional
terms.
Comments 13 pages, submitted to proceedings of the conference "Interactions
Between Hyperbolic Geometry, Quantum Topology and Number Theory", June 2009,
New York