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Dimension of the skein module of a closed manifold?
The finiteness conjecture for skein modules was recently proved by Gunningham, Jordan and Safronov in 2022.
Gunningham, S., Jordan, D. & Safronov, P. The finiteness conjecture for skein modules. ...
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Fundamental group of the complement of a codimension two submanifold
To your first question, the answer is yes.
Take a $k$-component trivial link in $S^n$, i.e. the boring, linear embedding
$$\sqcup_k S^{n-2} \to S^n$$
that is the boundary of a linear embedding
$$\...
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The Jones polynomial at specific values of $t$
Not exactly a value of the Jones polynomial, but I think in the spirit of the question: The logarithmic derivative of the Jones polynomial, evaluated at -1, is related to the Casson-Walker invariant ...
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