Traces on the skein algebra of the torus

For a surface F, the Kauffman bracket skein module of F×[0,1], denoted K(F), admits a natural multiplication which makes it an algebra. When specialized at a complex number t, nonzero and not a root of unity, we have Kt(F), a vector space over C. In this paper, we will use the product-to-sum formula of Frohman and Gelca to show that the vector space Kt(T2) has five distinct traces. One trace, the Yang–Mills measure, is obtained by picking off the coefficient of the empty skein. The other four traces on Kt(T2) correspond to the four singular points of the moduli space of flat SU(2)-connections on the torus.