Article
Presentations of Homotopy Skein Modules of Oriented 3-Manifolds
Journal of Knot Theory and Its Ramifications
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
5-1-2001
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/S0218216501000962
Disciplines
Abstract
A new method to derive presentations of skein modules is developed. For the case of homotopy skein modules it will be shown how the topology of a 3-manifold is reflected in the structure of the module. The freeness problem for q-homotopy skein modules is solved, and a natural skein module related to linking numbers is computed.
Citation Information
Uwe Kaiser. "Presentations of Homotopy Skein Modules of Oriented 3-Manifolds" Journal of Knot Theory and Its Ramifications (2001) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/uwe_kaiser/1/