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

cocycle invariantknotquandlequandle homologyquandle invariant functor

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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.

Review text

A quandle is a set \(Q\) with a binary operation which satisfies certain axioms and a pointed quandle is a pair \((Q, h)\) consisting of a quandle \(Q\) and one of its elements \(h\). In the paper under review, for each oriented knot \(K\) the author constructs a quandle invariant functor \(I_K\) in three different ways (algebraic, combinatorial, and geometric method), which is a functor from the category of pointed quandles to the category of quandles. As a consequence, for each pointed quandle \((Q, h)\) a quandle-valued invariant of a knot \(I_K(Q, h)\) is obtained. The classical knot quandle appears as the quandle valued invariant which corresponds to the trivial \(1\)-quandle and so this functor-valued invariant of a knot is an extension of the knot quandle. The author also constructs an extension of quandle cocycle invariants by using these quandle-valued invariants of knots, and studies their properties.

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

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