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arxiv: math/9911120 · v1 · submitted 1999-11-16 · 🧮 math.GT · math.AT

Kauffman bracket skein module of a connected sum of 3-manifolds

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We show that for the Kauffman bracket skein module over the field of rational functions in variable A, the module of a connected sum of 3-manifolds is the tensor product of modules of the individual manifolds.

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