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We show that for the Kauffman bracket skein module over the field of rational functions in variable A, the module of a connected sum of 3-manifolds is the tensor product of modules of the individual manifolds.
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Received: 12 January 1998 / Revised version: 15 September 1999
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Przytycki, J. Kauffman bracket skein module of a connected sum of 3-manifolds. manuscripta math. 101, 199–207 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/s002290050014
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