Jones-Wenzl Idempotents in the Twisted $I$-bundle over the M\"obius band
Abstract
The Jones-Wenzl idempotent plays a vital role in quantum invariants of -manifolds and the colored Jones polynomial; it also serves as a useful tool for simplifying computations and proving theorems in knot theory. The relative Kauffman bracket skein module (RKBSM) for surface -bundles and manifolds with marked boundaries have a well understood algebraic structure due to the work of J. H. Przytycki and T. T. Q. L\^e. It has been well documented that the RKBSM of the -bundle of the annulus and the twisted -bundle over the M\"obius band have distinct algebraic structures coming from the -bundle structures. This paper serves as an introduction to studying the trace of Jones-Wenzl idempotents in the Kauffman bracket skein module (KBSM) of the twisted -bundle of unorientable surfaces. We will give various results on Jones-Wenzl idempotents in the KBSM of the twisted -bundle over the M\"obius band when it is closed through the crosscap of the M\"obius band. We will also uncover analog properties of Jones-Wenzl idempotents in the KBSM of the twisted -bundle over the M\"obius band with the preservation of the -bundle structure that differ from the KBSM of .
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@article{arxiv.2301.04859,
title = {Jones-Wenzl Idempotents in the Twisted $I$-bundle over the M\"obius band},
author = {Dionne Ibarra},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.04859},
year = {2023}
}
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20 pages, comments welcomed