MPS-RR 1998-34
December 1998

Higher Skein Modules

by:

Jørgen Ellegaard Andersen

Vladimir Turaev

Abstract

We introduce higher skein modules of links generalizing the Conway skein module. We show that these modules are closely connected to the HOMFLY polynomial.

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This paper has now been published in J. Knot Theory Ramifications 8 (1999), no. 8, 963--984.