Power sum elements in the $G_2$ skein algebra

Bodie Beaumont-Gould, Erik Brodsky, Vijay Higgins +3

We study the skein algebras of surfaces associated to the exceptional Lie group $G_2,$ using Kuperberg webs. We identify two 2-variable polynomials, $P_n(x,y)$ and $Q_n(x,y),$ and…