Presentations of homotopy skein modules of oriented 3-manifolds
Geometric Topology
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
A new method to derive presentations of skein modules is developed. For the case of homotopy skein modules it will be shown how the topology of a 3-manifold is reflected in the structure of the module. The freeness problem for q-homotopy skein modules is solved, and a natural skein module related to linking numbers is computed.
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@article{arxiv.math/0007031,
title = {Presentations of homotopy skein modules of oriented 3-manifolds},
author = {Uwe Kaiser},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0007031},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
30 pages, 2 figures, Latex uses curves.sty and epic.sty