Skein Modules from Skew Howe Duality and Affine Extensions

Hoel Queffelec

Symmetry, integrability and geometry: methods and applications, Tome 11 (2015)

Résumé

We show that we can release the rigidity of the skew Howe duality process for $\mathfrak{sl}_n$ knot invariants by rescaling the quantum Weyl group action, and recover skein modules for web-tangles. This skew Howe duality phenomenon can be extended to the affine $\mathfrak{sl}_m$ case, corresponding to looking at tangles embedded in a solid torus. We investigate the relations between the invariants constructed by evaluation representations (and affinization of them) and usual skein modules, and give tools for interpretations of annular skein modules as sub-algebras of intertwiners for particular $U_q(\mathfrak{sl}_n)$ representations. The categorification proposed in a joint work with A. Lauda and D. Rose also admits a direct extension in the affine case.

Détail

Mots-clés : skein modules; quantum groups; annulus; affine quantum groups.

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