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Frobenius homomorphisms for stated ${\rm SL}_n$-skein modules

Geometric Topology 2025-04-14 v1 Quantum Algebra

Abstract

The stated SLn{\rm SL}_n-skein algebra Sq^(S)\mathscr{S}_{\hat{q}}(\mathfrak{S}) of a surface S\mathfrak{S} is a quantization of the SLn{\rm SL}_n-character variety, and is spanned over Z[q^±1]\mathbb{Z}[\hat{q}^{\pm 1}] by framed tangles in S×(1,1)\mathfrak{S} \times (-1,1). If q^\hat{q} is evaluated at a root of unity ω^\hat{\omega} with the order of ω^4n2\hat{\omega}^{4n^2} being NN, then for η^=ω^N2\hat{\eta} = \hat{\omega}^{N^2}, the Frobenius homomorphism Φ:Sη^(S)Sω^(S)\Phi : \mathscr{S}_{\hat{\eta}}(\mathfrak{S}) \to \mathscr{S}_{\hat{\omega}}(\mathfrak{S}) is a surface generalization of the well-known Frobenius homomorphism between quantum groups. We show that the image under Φ\Phi of a framed oriented knot α\alpha is given by threading along α\alpha of the reduced power elementary polynomial, which is an SLn{\rm SL}_n-analog of the Chebyshev polynomial TNT_N. This generalizes Bonahon and Wong's result for n=2n=2, and confirms a conjecture of Bonahon and Higgins. Our proof uses representation theory of quantum groups and its skein theoretic interpretation, and does not require heavy computations. We also extend our result to marked 3-manifolds.

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@article{arxiv.2504.08657,
  title  = {Frobenius homomorphisms for stated ${\rm SL}_n$-skein modules},
  author = {Hyun Kyu Kim and Thang T. Q. Lê and Zhihao Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.08657},
  year   = {2025}
}

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