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The Gilmer-Masbaum map is not injective on the Kauffman bracket skein module

2024/10/30 by Edwin Kitaeff, Kitaeff, Edwin
Medicine · Computer Science · Mathematics · #Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications #Topological and Geometric Data Analysis #Advanced Operator Algebra Research

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2410.23153

Abstract

Gilmer and Masbaum use Witten-Reshetikhin-Turaev (WRT) invariants to define a map from the Kauffman bracket skein module to a set of complex-valued functions defined on roots of unity in order to provide a lower bound for its dimension. We compute the image of the evaluation map for a family of mapping tori of the 2-torus and find that the restriction of the map to certain homology classes is not injective. This provides an answer to a question posed by Gilmer and Masbaum in the latter paper. Moreover, we give a basis for the Kauffman bracket skein module in the case of the mapping torus of a power of the Dehn twist along the meridian of the 2-torus.

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