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Article

Publication Date

11-2021

Abstract

We show that relations in Homflypt type skein theory of an oriented 3-manifold M are induced from a 2-groupoid defined from the fundamental 2-groupoid of a space of singular links M. The module relations are defined by homomorphisms related to string topology. They appear from a representation of the groupoid into free modules on a set of model objects. The construction on the fundamental 2-groupoid is defined by the singularity stratification and relates Vassiliev and skein theory. Several explicit properties are discussed, and some implications for skein modules are derived.

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Electronic version of an article published as Journal of Knot Theory and Its Ramifications, 30(13), 2021, 2141008. https://doi.org/10.1142/S021821652141008X. © World Scientific Publishing Company. https://www.worldscientific.com/worldscinet/jktr

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