The skein partition function of the mapping torus
Quantum Algebra
2025-11-25 v1 Algebraic Geometry
Geometric Topology
Representation Theory
Abstract
We compute the dimensions of -skein modules of genus-one mapping tori , for an arbitrary diffeomorphism of , and for generic quantum parameter. These are most cleanly expressed via a generating function over all , which we dub the skein partition function, and for which we compute an explicit Euler product expansion.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2511.19139,
title = {The skein partition function of the mapping torus},
author = {Julia Bierent and David Jordan and Matthias Vancraeynest and Monica Vazirani},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.19139},
year = {2025}
}