On the skein module of the product of a surface and a circle
arXiv:1804.05746
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.
15 pages, 1 figure, to appear in Proc. A.M.S