Estimating the states of the Kauffman bracket skein module
Bullock, Doug
Banach Center Publications, Tome 43 (1998), p. 23-28 / Harvested from The Polish Digital Mathematics Library
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The states of the title are a set of knot types which suffice to create a generating set for the Kauffman bracket skein module of a manifold. The minimum number of states is a topological invariant, but quite difficult to compute. In this paper we show that a set of states determines a generating set for the ring of SL2(C) characters of the fundamental group, which in turn provides estimates of the invariant.

Publié le : 1998-01-01
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Bullock, Doug. Estimating the states of the Kauffman bracket skein module. Banach Center Publications, Tome 43 (1998) pp. 23-28. http://gdmltest.u-ga.fr/item/bwmeta1.element.bwnjournal-article-bcpv42i1p23bwm/

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