Kauffman bracket versus Jones polynomial skein modules
Geometric Topology
2022-04-05 v3
Abstract
This paper resolves the problem of comparing the skein modules defined using the skein relations discovered by R. Kirby and P. Melvin that underlie the Reshetikhin-Turaev model for Chern-Simons theory to the Kauffman bracket skein modules. Several applications and examples are presented.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2102.03655,
title = {Kauffman bracket versus Jones polynomial skein modules},
author = {Shamon Almeida and Razvan Gelca},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.03655},
year = {2022}
}