Relating stated skein algebras and internal skein algebras

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Abstract: We give an explicit correspondence between stated skein algebras, which are defined via explicit relations on stated tangles in [Costantino F., L^e T.T.Q., arXiv:1907.11400], and internal skein algebras, which are defined as internal endomorphism algebras in free cocompletions of skein categories in [Ben-Zvi D., Brochier A., Jordan D., J. Topol. 11 (2018), 874-917, arXiv:1501.04652] or in [Gunningham S., Jordan D., Safronov P., arXiv:1908.05233]. Stated skein algebras are defined on surfaces with multiple boundary edges and we generalise internal skein algebras in this context. Now, one needs to distinguish between left and right boundary edges, and we explain this phenomenon on stated skein algebras using a half-twist. We prove excision properties of multi-edges internal skein algebras using excision properties of skein categories, and agreeing with excision properties of stated skein algebras when mathcalV=mathcalUq2(mathfraksl2)ext−mmodmfin. Our proofs are mostly based on skein theory and we do not require the reader to be familiar with the formalism of higher categories.


The main results of the paper provide an explicit correspondence between the stated skein algebras and the internal skein algebras of a marked surface with boundary, using mainly skein theory. More precisely, the author proves the following. Theorem 1.1. Let \(\Sigma\) be a compact oriented surface with a boundary edge \(e\) seen at the right for stated skein algebras and at the left for internal skein algebras; then one has an isomorphism of \(\mathcal{O}_{q^2}(\mathrm{SL}_2)\)-comodule-algebras \(A_\Sigma\cong \mathcal{S}(\Sigma),\) between the stated skein algebra \(\mathcal{S}(\Sigma)\) and the internal skein algebra \(A_\Sigma\). Theorem 1.5. Let \(\Sigma\) be a marked surface with \(n\) boundary edges labelled either as left or as right edges. There is an isomorphism of \(\big(\mathcal{O}_{q^2}(\mathrm{SL}_2)^{\otimes k},\mathcal{O}_{q^2}(\mathrm{SL}_2)^{\otimes n-k}\big)\)-bicomodule algebras \(A_\Sigma^{L_{k+1},\dots,L_n}\cong \mathcal{S}(\Sigma),\) between the stated skein algebra \(\mathcal{S}(\Sigma)\) seen as a left \(\mathcal{O}_{q^2}(\mathrm{SL}_2)\)-comodule on the right edges, and the internal skein algebra \(A_\Sigma\) with the comodule structures of the right edges switched at the left using the antipode.











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