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Title:
Positive bases for skein algebras

Speaker:
Dylan Thurston

Abstract:
We give a basis for the classical skein algebra of a surface(parametrizing twisted SL2 representations) which is strongly positive, in the sense that the structure constants for multiplication are positive integers. This basis has a q-deformation, which is conjecturally also strongly positive. We speculate where positivity might come from in terms of a categorification of the skein algebra.

Link:
http://scgp.stonybrook.edu/video_portal/video.php?id=705

Workshop:
Simons- Program: Low Dimensional Topology (Spring 2013)