Abstract. We define a coalgebra structure for open strings transverse to any framed codimension 2 submanifold K ⊂ M . When the submanifold is a knot in R 3 , we show this structure recovers a specialization of Ng cord algebra [Ng3], a non-trivial knot invariant which is not determined by a number of other knot invariants.
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