Bilinear forms on skein modules and steps in Dyck paths

Xuanting Cai, Toufik Mansour

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Abstract

We use Jones-Wenzl idempotents to construct bases for the relative Kauffman bracket skein module of a square with n points colored 1 and one point colored h. We consider a natural bilinear form on this skein module. We calculate the determinant of the matrix for this form with respect to the natural basis. We reduce the computation to count some steps in generalized Dyck paths. Moreover, we relate our determinant to a determinant on semi-meanders.

Original languageAmerican English
Article number073509
JournalJournal of Mathematical Physics
Volume52
Issue number7
DOIs
StatePublished - 11 Jul 2011

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
  • Mathematical Physics

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