The Kauffman bracket skein module of the handlebody of genus 2 via braids

Ioannis Diamantis

In this paper we present two new bases, $B_{H_2}^{\prime }$ and ${\mathcal{B}}_{H_2}$, for the Kauffman bracket skein module of the handlebody of genus 2 $H_2$, KBSM($H_2$). We start…