The finiteness conjecture for skein modules

DOI10.1007/S00222-022-01167-0MaRDI QIDQ6323662arXivWikidataFDO

Authors Sam Gunningham, David Jordan, Pavel Safronov

Publication date 14 August 2019

Published in arXiv

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/S00222-022-01167-0

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General topology of 3-manifolds (57K30) Invariants of 3-manifolds (including skein modules, character varieties) (57K31)

arXiv classification

math.GTmath.QAmath.RT

Abstract: 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.

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