Legendrian skein algebras and Hall algebras

We compare two associative algebras which encode the “quantum topology” of Legendrian curves in contact threefolds of product type $$S\times {\mathbb {R}}$$ S × R . The first is the skein algebra of graded Legendrian links and the second is the Hall algebra of the Fukaya category of S. We construct a natural homomorphism from the former to the latter, which we show is an isomorphism if S is a disk with marked points and injective if S is the annulus.

Lower and Upper Bounds for Positive Bases of Skein Algebras

We show that if a sequence of normalized polynomials gives rise to a positive basis of the skein algebra of a surface, then it is sandwiched between the two types of Chebyshev polynomials. For the closed torus, we show that the normalized sequence of Chebyshev polynomials of type one $(\hat{T}_n)$ is the only one that gives a positive basis.