The A-polynomial from the noncommutative viewpoint

Transactions of the American Mathematical Society

Volumn 354, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 735-747

  Frohman, Charles ^a   Gelca, Rǎzvan ^a   Lofaro, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

A polynomial; Character varieties; Kauffman bracket; Noncommutative geometry; Skein modules

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035981919     PISSN: 00029947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9947-01-02889-6     Document Type: Article

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