Almeida, ShamonGelca, Razvan2022-08-122022-08-122022Almeida, Shamon and Gelca, Razvan(2022), Kauffman bracket versus Jones polynomial skein modules,arXivLabs,https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.03655http://repository.kln.ac.lk/handle/123456789/25059This paper resolves the problem of comparing the skein modules defined using the skein relations discovered by P. Melvin and R. Kirby that underlie the quantum group based Reshetikhin-Turaev model for SU(2) Chern-Simons theory to the Kauffman bracket skein modules. Several applications and examples are presented.Kauffman bracket, Jones polynomial, skein modules, Chern- Simons theory.