The finiteness conjecture for skein modules

Sam Gunningham; David Jordan; Pavel Safronov

doi:10.1007/s00222-022-01167-0

The finiteness conjecture for skein modules

Sam Gunningham, David Jordan, Pavel Safronov

School of Mathematics

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We give a new, algebraically computable formula for skein modules of closed 3-manifolds via Heegaard splittings. As an application, we prove that skein modules of closed 3-manifolds are finite-dimensional, resolving in the affirmative a conjecture of Witten.

Original language	English
Number of pages	38
Journal	Inventiones mathematicae
Early online date	8 Dec 2022
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s00222-022-01167-0
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 8 Dec 2022

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57K31 Invariants of 3-manifolds (also skein modules; character varieties)
17B37 Quantum groups (quantized enveloping algebras) and related deformations

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