A functor-valued extension of knot quandles

DOI10.2969/JMSJ/06441147MaRDI QIDQ1928337zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Tetsuya Ito

Publication date 3 January 2013

Published in Journal of the Mathematical Society of Japan (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1006.1949, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.jmsj/1351516771

zbMATH Keywords

knotquandlecocycle invariantquandle homologyquandle invariant functor

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Abstract: For an oriented knot $K$, we construct a functor from the category of pointed quandles to the category of quandles in three different ways. We also extend the quandle cocycle invariants of knots by using these quandle-valued invariant of knots, and study their properties.

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• The classification of Wada-type representations of braid groups.
• Knot quandle decompositions

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