An intrinsic approach to invariants of framed links in 3-manifolds

  • Efstratia Kalfagianni

    Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA

Abstract

We study framed links in irreducible 3-manifolds that are -homology 3-spheres or atoroidal -homology 3-spheres. We calculate the dual of the Kauffman skein module over the ring of two variable power series with complex coefficients. For links in we give a new construction of the classical Kauffman polynomial.

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Efstratia Kalfagianni, An intrinsic approach to invariants of framed links in 3-manifolds. Quantum Topol. 2 (2011), no. 1, pp. 71–96

DOI 10.4171/QT/14