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Quantum deformations of fundamental groups of oriented 3-manifolds

Geometric Topology 2007-05-23 v2 Quantum Algebra

Abstract

We compute two-term skein modules of framed oriented links in oriented 3-manifolds. They contain the self-writhe and total linking number invariants of framed oriented links in a universal way. The relations in a natural presentation of the skein module are interpreted as monodromies in the space of immersions from circles to the 3-manifold.

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@article{arxiv.math/0202293,
  title  = {Quantum deformations of fundamental groups of oriented 3-manifolds},
  author = {Uwe Kaiser},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0202293},
  year   = {2007}
}

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14 pages,1 figure