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Claremont Topology Seminar: Indraneel Tambe (UCLA)
December 2, 2025 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
We welcome all undergraduate/graduate students and faculty to attend topology seminar!
Speaker: Indraneel Tambe (UCLA)
Title: Steinberg skein relations at roots of unity
Abstract: This talk discusses some of the relationships between skein theory and the representation theory of quantum sl2 when q is a root of unity. Specifically, I focus on the Frobenius pullback functor on Uq sl2 representations and see how this relates to Bonahon-Wong’s Frobenius skein homomorphism between Kauffman bracket skein modules. I’ll describe results from my joint work with Vijay Higgins in which we proved what we called Steinberg skein identities and used these in a new proof of the well-definition of the Frobenius skein homomorphism.