Parity biquandle invariants of virtual knots (Q2630454)

Knot invariants based on counting quandle colorings can be enhanced by considering the state sum of Boltzmann weights over 2-cocycles. A similar construction has been introduced for biquandle colorings, too. For virtual knots, the biquandle coloring can be refined by considering parity of crossings, and correspondingly, parity-biquandles for coloring. In the present paper, the authors aim at enhancement of the counting parity-biquandle colorings invariant, by considering state sums of Boltzmann weights over some variant of the notion of 2-cocycle for parity-biquandles. An example is provided that the resulting enhancement carries more information than the counting invariant.