Coordinates for ${\rm SL}_3$-web basis elements in closed surfaces
Geometric Topology
2026-05-11 v2 Quantum Algebra
Abstract
The -skein algebra of a closed surface is a quantization of the character variety of , where denotes the genus of the surface. This algebra admits a basis consisting of non-elliptic web diagrams in . In this paper, we introduce explicit coordinates for non-elliptic web diagrams on , yielding a parametrization by a submonoid of . Here for and in the torus case , coinciding with the dimension of the corresponding character variety.
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@article{arxiv.2602.19445,
title = {Coordinates for ${\rm SL}_3$-web basis elements in closed surfaces},
author = {Zhe Sun and Zhihao Wang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.19445},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
30 pages. This is Version 2. In the revised version, we updated the definition of essential web diagrams in a pair of pants in Definition 4.1. We also added several examples in Figure 7 to illustrate Definition 4.1