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Knots in Washington XX; 60th birthday of Louis H. Kauffman
February 11-13, 2005
George Washington University
Washington, DC, USA

Organizers
Sofia Lambropoulou (NTUA and Univ. de Caen), Jozef H. Przytycki (GWU), Yongwu Rong (GWU)

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Survey on the Kauffman bracket skein modules of 3-manifolds
by
Jozef H. Przytycki
George Washington University

We describe the development of the Kauffman bracket skein modules, from the Kauffman's discovery of his bracket polynomial in 1985, to Categorification by stratified Khovanov homology of the Kauffman bracket skein module (KBSM) of FxI.

Date received: February 11, 2005

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