Title: Kauffman bracket skein module of a connected sum of 3-manifolds

Author: Jozef H. Przytycki

Preprint: GWUM-2000-1

Note: to appear in Manuscripta Mathematica

Abstract: 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.