Quantum deformations of fundamental groups of oriented 3-manifolds

Kaiser, Uwe

doi:10.1090/S0002-9947-03-03424-X

Quantum deformations of fundamental groups of oriented -manifolds

Author: Uwe Kaiser
Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 356 (2004), 3869-3880
MSC (2000): Primary 57M25, 57M35, 57R42
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9947-03-03424-X
Published electronically: November 25, 2003
MathSciNet review: 2058509
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Abstract: We compute two-term skein modules of framed oriented links in oriented -manifolds. They contain the self-writhe and total linking number invariants of framed oriented links in a universal way. The relations in a natural presentation of the skein module are interpreted as monodromies in the space of immersions of circles into the -manifold.

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