A functor-valued extension of knot quandles

DOI10.2969/JMSJ/06441147zbMATH Open1283.57012arXiv1006.1949OpenAlexW3099930235MaRDI QIDQ1928337FDOQ1928337

Authors: Tetsuya Ito 

Publication date: 3 January 2013

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

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.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1006.1949

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zbMATH Keywords

knotquandlecocycle invariantquandle homologyquandle invariant functor

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

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