On core quandles of groups

DOI10.1080/00927872.2021.1874400MaRDI QIDQ4994040zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors George M. Bergman

Publication date 14 June 2021

Published in Communications in Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.00641

zbMATH Keywords

core quandle of a groupgenerating numbers of groups and quandlesidentities in groups and quandlesinvolutory quandle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nilpotent groups (20F18) Sets with a single binary operation (groupoids) (20N02) Generalized knots (virtual knots, welded knots, quandles, etc.) (57K12)

Abstract: We review the definition of a quandle, and in particular of the core quandle $mathrmCore(G)$ of a group $G$, which consists of the underlying set of $G$, with the binary operation $xlhdy=x{y}^{-1}x$. This is an involutory quandle, i.e., satisfies the identity $xlhd(xlhdy)=y$ in addition to the other identities defining a quandle. Trajectories $(x_i{)}_{iinmathbbZ}$ in groups and in involutory quandles (in the former context, sequences of the form $x_i=x{z}^i$ where $x,zinG,$ among other characterizations; in the latter, sequences satisfying $x_{i+1}=x_{i}lhd,x_{i-1})$ are examined. A family of necessary conditions for an involutory quandle to be embeddable in the core quandle of a group is noted. Some implications are established between identities holding in groups and in their core quandles. Upper and lower bounds are obtained on the number of elements needed to generate the quandle $mathrmCore(G)$ for $G$ a finitely generated group. Several questions are posed.

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