The Unicity Theorem and the center of the ${\rm SL}_3$-skein algebra (2407.16812v3)

Abstract: The ${\rm SL}3$-skein algebra $\mathscr{S}{\bar{q}}(\mathfrak{S})$ of a punctured oriented surface $\mathfrak{S}$ is a quantum deformation of the coordinate algebra of the ${\rm SL}3$-character variety of $\mathfrak{S}$. When $\bar{q}$ is a root of unity, we prove the Unicity Theorem for representations of $\mathscr{S}{\bar{q}}(\mathfrak{S})$, in particular the existence and uniqueness of a generic irreducible representation. Furthermore, we show that the center of $\mathscr{S}{\bar{q}}(\frak{S})$ is generated by the peripheral skeins around punctures and the central elements contained in the image of the Frobenius homomorphism for $\mathscr{S}{\bar{q}}(\frak{S})$, a surface generalization of Frobenius homomorphisms of quantum groups related to ${\rm SL}3$. We compute the rank of $\mathscr{S}{\bar{q}}(\mathfrak{S})$ over its center, hence the dimension of the generic irreducible representation.