We study the skein algebras of marked surfaces and the skein modules of marked
–manifolds.
Muller showed that skein algebras of totally marked surfaces may be
embedded in easy-to-study algebras known as quantum tori. We first
extend Muller’s result to permit marked surfaces with unmarked boundary
components. The addition of unmarked components allows us to develop a
surgery theory which enables us to extend the Chebyshev homomorphism
of Bonahon and Wong between skein algebras of unmarked surfaces to a
“Chebyshev–Frobenius homomorphism” between skein modules of marked
–manifolds.
We show that the image of the Chebyshev–Frobenius homomorphism is either
transparent or skew-transparent. In addition, we make use of the Muller algebra
method to calculate the center of the skein algebra of a marked surface when the
quantum parameter is not a root of unity.
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