Shadow biquandles and local biquandles

From MaRDI portal
Publication:2293009



Abstract: Given a shadow biquandle (B,X) composed of a biquandle B and a strongly connected B-set X, we have a local biquandle structure on X. The (co)homology groups of such shadow biquandles are isomorphic to those of the corresponding local biquandles. Moreover, cocycle invariants, of oriented links and oriented surface-links, using such shadow biquandles coincide with those using the corresponding local biquandles. These results imply that for some cases, the Niebrzydowski's theory in [14, 15, 16] for knot-theoretic ternary quasigroups is the same as shadow biquandle theory. We also show that some local biquandle 2- or 3-cocycles and some 1- or 2-cocycles of the Niebrzydowski's (co)homology theory can be induced from Mochizuki's cocycles.


Biquandles are a generalization of quandles and they are algebraic systems, equipped with two binary operations coming from the Reidemeister moves of oriented link diagrams with semi-arc labelings. Shadow quandle theory and shadow biquandle theory are related to region labelings for oriented link diagrams in addition to arc or semi-arc labelings. The author shows that the (co)homology groups of shadow biquandles composed of a biquandle \(B\) and a strongly connected \(B\)-set, are isomorphic to those of the corresponding local biquandles. Moreover, cocycle invariants of oriented links and oriented surface-links, using such shadow biquandles, coincide with those using the corresponding local biquandles. As a consequence, the author shows that some local biquandle \(2\)- or \(3\)-cocycles and some \(1\)- or \(2\)-cocycles of Niebrzydowski's (co)homology theory can be induced from Mochizuki's cocycles.











This page was built for publication: Shadow biquandles and local biquandles

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q2293009)