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 ℤ-homology 3-spheres or atoroidal ℚ-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 S3 we give a new construction of the classical Kauffman polynomial.
Cite this article
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