{
  "id": "1804.05746",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2018-04-16T15:40:46.000Z",
  "updated": "2018-04-16T15:40:46.000Z",
  "title": "On the skein module of the product of a surface and a circle",
  "authors": [
    "Patrick M. Gilmer",
    "Gregor Masbaum"
  ],
  "comment": "15 pages, 1 figure",
  "categories": [
    "math.GT",
    "math.QA"
  ],
  "abstract": "Let Sigma be a closed oriented surface of genus g. We show that the Kauffman bracket skein module of Sigma x S^1 over the field of rational functions in A has dimension at least 2^{2g+1}+2g-1.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2018-04-16T15:40:46.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "subjects": [
      "57N10",
      "57M99",
      "57R56"
    ],
    "keywords": [
      "kauffman bracket skein module",
      "rational functions",
      "closed oriented surface"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 15,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable"
    }
  }
}