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Excision of Skein Categories and Factorisation Homology (1910.02630v1)
Published 7 Oct 2019 in math.QA
Abstract: We prove that the skein categories of Walker--Johnson-Freyd satisfy excision. This allows us to conclude that skein categories are $k$-linear factorisation homology and taking the free cocompletion of skein categories recovers locally finitely presentable factorisation homology. An application of this is that the skein algebra of a punctured surface related to any quantum group with generic parameter gives a quantisation of the associated character variety.