Resources and Papers

Here are some books I recommend if you're interested in reading more about skein modules, quantum groups, or character varieties.

• Jozef Prztycki - Lectures in Knot Theory

• Vladimir Turaev - Quantum Invariants of Knots and 3-Manifolds

• Vladimir Turaev - "Skein Quantization of the Poisson Algebra of Loops on Surfaces"

• Chrisitan Kassel - Quantum Groups

• Chari and Pressley - A Guide to Quantum Groups, for a more geometric approach.

Here are some papers going into more depth.