Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-2004

Abstract

We compute two-term skein modules of framed oriented links in oriented 3-manifolds. They contain the self-writhe and total linking number invariants of framed oriented links in a universal way. The relations in a natural presentation of the skein module are interpreted as monodromies in the space of immersions of circles into the 3-manifold.

Copyright Statement

First published in Transactions of the American Mathematical Society 356(10), published by the American Mathematical Society. http://www.ams.org/home/page

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