A comparison between $SL_n$ spider categories
Geometric Topology
2025-08-27 v5 Quantum Algebra
Abstract
We prove a conjecture of L\^{e} and Sikora by providing a comparison between various existing skein theories. While doing so, we show that the full subcategory of the spider category, , defined by Cautis-Kamnitzer-Morrison, whose objects are monoidally generated by the standard representation and its dual, is equivalent as a spherical braided category to Sikora's quotient category. This also answers a question from Morrison's Ph.D. thesis. Finally, we show that the skein modules associated to the CKM and Sikora's webs are isomorphic.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2210.09289,
title = {A comparison between $SL_n$ spider categories},
author = {Anup Poudel},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.09289},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
30 pages, some changes made to the structure of the paper. To appear in Canadian Journal of Math