On the Kauffman bracket skein module of surgery on a (2,2b) torus link

2008/07/09 by John M. Harris, Harris, John M.
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Computer Science · Mathematics · #57M27 #Connective tissue disorders research #FOS: Mathematics #Geometric Topology (math.GT) #Geometric and Algebraic Topology #math.GT #msc:57M27 #semigroups and automata theory

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0807.1491

21 pages

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Abstract

We show that the Kauffman bracket skein modules of certain manifolds obtained from integral surgery on a (2,2b) torus link are finitely generated, and list the generators for select examples.

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