Frobenius homomorphisms for stated ${\rm SL}_n$-skein modules
Abstract
The stated -skein algebra of a surface is a quantization of the -character variety, and is spanned over by framed tangles in . If is evaluated at a root of unity with the order of being , then for , the Frobenius homomorphism is a surface generalization of the well-known Frobenius homomorphism between quantum groups. We show that the image under of a framed oriented knot is given by threading along of the reduced power elementary polynomial, which is an -analog of the Chebyshev polynomial . This generalizes Bonahon and Wong's result for , 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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76 pages