Quandle cocycle quivers (Q2334028)

Quandle cocycle quivers are defined to be quandle coloring quivers with vertices weighted by values of a quandle \(2\)-cocycle, and several link invariants are derived from them. In the previous paper [J. Knot Theory Ramifications 28, No. 1, Article ID 1950001, 12 p. (2019; Zbl 1420.57032)], the authors have introduced quandle coloring quivers for oriented links. For a finite quandle \(X\) and an oriented link \(L\) and a set of quandle endomorphisms \(S \subset\)\,Hom\((X,X)\), a quandle coloring quiver \(\mathcal{Q}^S_X(L)\) is the directed graph with one vertex for every quandle coloring and one edge directed from \(f\) to \(g\) for every endmorphism \(\phi \in S\) with \(g = \phi \circ f\). If both \(g= \phi \circ f\) and \(f = \phi \circ g\) hold, then the quiver has two edges with opposite directions for \(\phi\). In the paper under review, the quandle cocycle quiver \(\mathcal{Q}^{S,\phi}_X(L)\) is defined to be the quandle coloring quiver \(\mathcal{Q}^S_X(L)\) with weight \(\phi(v_i)\) at each vertex \(v_i\), where \(\phi\) is a quandle \(2\)-cocycle for \(X\). Quandle cocycles were defined in [\textit{J. S. Carter} et al., Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 355, No. 10, 3947--3989 (2003; Zbl 1028.57003)]. An example of two links with the same quandle coloring quivers and distinct quandle cocycle quivers is given. A new 2-variable polynomial invariant for orientable links, called the quandle enhanced cocycle polynomial, is defined by summing up \(s^{\phi(v_j)} t^{\phi(v_k)}\) (for an edge directed from \(v_j\) to \(v_k\)) over all edges. The knots \(6_1\) and \(7_7\) in the knot table in Rolfsen's book have the same quandle cocycle polynomial and distinct quiver enhanced cocycle polynomials. Moreover, many other link invariants are constructed from a modification of the incidence matrix of the graph incorporating the cocycle informations. Some questions are given in the last section.