Generalized Skein Modules of Surfaces
Geometric Topology
2010-09-17 v1
Abstract
Frobenius extensions play a central role in the link homology theories based upon the sl(n) link variants, and each of these Frobenius extensions may be recast geometrically via a category of marked cobordisms in the manner of Bar-Natan. Here we explore a large family of such marked cobordism categories that are relevant to generalized sl(n) link homology theories. We also investigate the skein modules that result from embedding these marked cobordisms within 3-manifolds, and arrive at an explicit presentation for several of these generalized skein modules.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.1009.3207,
title = {Generalized Skein Modules of Surfaces},
author = {Jeffrey Boerner and Paul Drube},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1009.3207},
year = {2010}
}
Comments
23 pages, multiple figures