Przytycki's Homflypt skein module conjecture for submanifolds of rational homology spheres

Let MM be a submanifold of a rational homology sphere. Assume that MM contains no closed, oriented incompressible surface. Let S3(M){\cal S}_3(M) denote its Homflypt skein module, let Rπ^oR\hat\pi^o be the module spanned by conjugacy classes of nontrivial elements of the fundamental group of MM, and let S{\bf S} denote the symmetric tensor algebra. Przytycki's Homflypt skein module conjecture. The module S3(M){\cal S}_3(M) is free and isomorphic to the symmetric tensor algebra over Rπ^oR\hat\pi^o:

calS3(M)=SRπ^o.{cal S}_3(M)={\bf S}R\hat\pi^o.

This conjecture proposes that, in the absence of closed oriented incompressible surfaces, the Homflypt skein module is completely determined by conjugacy classes of nontrivial elements of the fundamental group. The supplied text does not indicate whether the conjecture has been resolved.

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Primary source

Jozef H. Przytycki, “Nonorientable, incompressible surfaces in punctured-torus bundles over S^1”, arXiv:1812.11228 (2018).

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2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2006–2018). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:math/0602264.

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