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When $A$ in the Kauffman bracket skein relation is a primitive $2N$th root of unity, where $N\geq 3$ is odd, the Kauffman bracket skein algebra $K_N(F)$ of a finite type surface $F$ is a ring extension of the $SL_2\mathbb{C}$-characters…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-03-16 Nel Abdiel , Charles Frohman

The ${\rm SL}_3$-skein algebra of a closed surface $\Sigma_g$ is a quantization of the ${\rm SL}_3$ character variety of $\Sigma_g$, where $g$ denotes the genus of the surface. This algebra admits a basis consisting of non-elliptic web…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-05-11 Zhe Sun , Zhihao Wang

The Kauffman bracket skein algebra is a quantization of the algebra of regular functions on the $SL_2$ character variety of a topological surface. We realize the skein algebra of the $4$-punctured sphere as the output of a mirror symmetry…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Pierrick Bousseau

We give a new proof of a slightly modified version of a result of Queffelec--Rose, by constructing a linear basis for the $\mathrm{SL}(n)$ skein algebra of the twice punctured sphere for any non-zero complex number $q$, excluding finitely…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Tommaso Cremaschi , Daniel C. Douglas

For a finite-type surface $\mathfrak{S}$, we study a preferred basis for the commutative algebra $\mathbb{C}[\mathscr{R}_{\mathrm{SL}_3(\mathbb{C})}(\mathfrak{S})]$ of regular functions on the $\mathrm{SL}_3(\mathbb{C})$-character variety,…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-01-09 Daniel C. Douglas , Zhe Sun

In this paper we partially settle Fock-Goncharov's duality conjecture for cluster varieties associated to their moduli spaces of ${\rm G}$-local systems on a punctured surface $\frak{S}$ with boundary data, when ${\rm G}$ is a group of type…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-09-05 Hyun Kyu Kim

In this paper we use Kuperberg's $\mathfrak{sl}_3$-webs and Khovanov's $\mathfrak{sl}_3$-foams to define a new algebra $K^S$, which we call the $\mathfrak{sl}_3$-web algebra. It is the $\mathfrak{sl}_3$ analogue of Khovanov's arc algebra.…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2018-03-13 Marco Mackaay , Weiwei Pan , Daniel Tubbenhauer

This is the third article in the series begun with [BonWon3, BonWon4], devoted to finite-dimensional representations of the Kauffman bracket skein algebra of an oriented surface $S$. In [BonWon3] we associated a classical shadow to an…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-01-19 Francis Bonahon , Helen Wong

We develop a theory of confluence of graphs. We describe an algorithm for proving that a given system of reduction rules for abstract graphs and graphs in surfaces is locally confluent. We apply this algorithm to show that each simple Lie…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2014-10-01 Adam S. Sikora , Bruce W. Westbury

Let $A\neq 0$ be a complex number with $ |A|\neq 1$. Let $M$ be a compact smooth oriented $3$-manifold, the $SU(3)$-skein space of $M$, $S_A(M)$, is the vector space over $\mathbb{C}$ generated by framed oriented links (including framed…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-06-09 Charles Frohman , Jianyuan K. Zhong

The sliced skein algebra of a closed surface of genus $g$ with $m$ punctures, $\mathfrak{S}=\Sigma_{g,m}$, is the quotient of the Kauffman bracket skein algebra $\mathcal{S}_\xi(\mathfrak{S})$ corresponding to fixing the scalar values of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-02-13 Charles Frohman , Joanna Kania-Bartoszynska , Thang Lê

For every oriented surface of finite type, we construct a functorial Khovanov homology for links in a thickening of the surface, which takes values in a categorification of the corresponding gl(2) skein module. The latter is a mild…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2018-06-12 Hoel Queffelec , Paul Wedrich

This is a preliminary note on a family of minimal surfaces in the 3-sphere defined by a compatible fourth order equation. The minimal surfaces are geometrically characterized either by having a surface of revolution like induced metric, or…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-10-17 Joe S. Wang

The ${\rm SL}_3$-skein algebra $\mathscr{S}_{\bar{q}}(\mathfrak{S})$ of a punctured oriented surface $\mathfrak{S}$ is a quantum deformation of the coordinate algebra of the ${\rm SL}_3$-character variety of $\mathfrak{S}$. When $\bar{q}$…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2024-11-19 Hyun Kyu Kim , Zhihao Wang

The ideal (tagged resp.) triangulation of bounded surface with marked points are associated with skew-symmetric (skew-symmetrizable) exchange matrices. An algo- rithm is established to decompose the graph associated to such matrix. There…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-12-06 Weiwen Gu

This paper gives insight into intriguing connections between two apparently unrelated theories: the theory of skein modules of 3-manifolds and the theory of representations of groups into special linear groups of 2 by 2 matrices. Let R be a…

q-alg · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Jozef H. Przytycki , Adam S. Sikora

We prove a uniqueness result for finite-dimensional representations of the Kauffman skein algebra $\mathcal{S}_A(S)$ of a surface $S$, when $A$ is a root of unity and when the surface $S$ is a sphere with at most four punctures or a torus…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-05-08 Nurdin Takenov

A Kauffman bracket on a surface is an invariant for framed links in the thickened surface, satisfying the Kauffman skein relation and multiplicative under superposition. This includes representations of the skein algebra of the surface. We…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-08-02 Francis Bonahon , Helen Wong

Given a semisimple Lie algebra $\mathfrak{g}$, we can represent invariants of tensor products of fundamental representations of the quantum enveloping algebra $U_q(\mathfrak{g})$ using particular directed graphs called webs. In particular…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2018-10-01 Colin Hagemeyer

In this paper we study the skein algebras of marked surfaces and the skein modules of marked 3-manifolds. Muller showed that skein algebras of totally marked surfaces may be embedded in easy to study algebras known as quantum tori. We first…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-12-25 Thang T. Q. Le , Jonathan Paprocki