A basis for the Kauffman skein module of the product of a surface and a circle

Renaud Detcherry, Maxime Wolff

The Kauffman bracket skein module $S(M)$ of a 3-manifold $M$ is a $\mathbb{Q}(A)$-vector space spanned by links in $M$ modulo the so-called Kauffman relations. In this article, for…