Topology Atlas | Conferences


Knots in Washington XXIV; Dedicated to the memory of Xiao-Song Lin
April 13-15, 2007
George Washington University
Washington, DC, USA

Organizers
Jozef H. Przytycki (GWU and UMD), Yongwu Rong (GWU), Alexander Shumakovitch (GWU)

Conference Homepage


Hochschild homology and 3-manifolds
by
Michael McLendon
Washington College

Given a Heegaard splitting of a closed 3-manifold, the zeroth Hochschild homology of the skein algebra of the gluing surface with coefficients in the tensor product of the skein modules of the two handlebodies can be seen as the Kauffman bracket skein module of the resulting 3-manifold. It is natural to ask if the higher Hochschild homology modules are independent of the Heegaard splitting and thus also invariants of the 3-manifold. We will look at the Hochschild chain complex associated to a Heegaard splitting and investigate the effect of stabilization.

Date received: March 25, 2007


Copyright © 2007 by the author(s). The author(s) of this work and the organizers of the conference have granted their consent to include this abstract in Topology Atlas. Document # cauq-03.