Skein traces from curve counting

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Autores principales: Ekholm, Tobias, Longhi, Pietro, Park, Sunghyuk, Shende, Vivek
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Publicado: 2025
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author Ekholm, Tobias
Longhi, Pietro
Park, Sunghyuk
Shende, Vivek
author_facet Ekholm, Tobias
Longhi, Pietro
Park, Sunghyuk
Shende, Vivek
contents Given a 3-manifold $M$, and a branched cover arising from the projection of a Lagrangian 3-manifold $L$ in the cotangent bundle of $M$ to the zero-section, we define a map from the skein of $M$ to the skein of $L$, via the skein-valued counting of holomorphic curves. When $M$ and $L$ are products of surfaces and intervals, we show that wall crossings in the space of the branched covers obey a skein-valued lift of the Kontsevich-Soibelman wall-crossing formula. Holomorphic curves in cotangent bundles correspond to Morse flow graphs; in the case of branched double covers, this allows us to give an explicit formula for the the skein trace. After specializing to the case where $M$ is a surface times an interval, and additionally specializing the HOMFLYPT skein to the $\mathfrak{gl}(2)$ skein on $M$ and the $\mathfrak{gl}(1)$ skein on $L$, we recover an existing prescription of Neitzke and Yan.
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spellingShingle Skein traces from curve counting
Ekholm, Tobias
Longhi, Pietro
Park, Sunghyuk
Shende, Vivek
Symplectic Geometry
High Energy Physics - Theory
Geometric Topology
Quantum Algebra
Given a 3-manifold $M$, and a branched cover arising from the projection of a Lagrangian 3-manifold $L$ in the cotangent bundle of $M$ to the zero-section, we define a map from the skein of $M$ to the skein of $L$, via the skein-valued counting of holomorphic curves. When $M$ and $L$ are products of surfaces and intervals, we show that wall crossings in the space of the branched covers obey a skein-valued lift of the Kontsevich-Soibelman wall-crossing formula. Holomorphic curves in cotangent bundles correspond to Morse flow graphs; in the case of branched double covers, this allows us to give an explicit formula for the the skein trace. After specializing to the case where $M$ is a surface times an interval, and additionally specializing the HOMFLYPT skein to the $\mathfrak{gl}(2)$ skein on $M$ and the $\mathfrak{gl}(1)$ skein on $L$, we recover an existing prescription of Neitzke and Yan.
title Skein traces from curve counting
topic Symplectic Geometry
High Energy Physics - Theory
Geometric Topology
Quantum Algebra
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.19041