The 3-cocycles of the Alexander quandles F_q[T]/(T-)

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Abstract: We determine the third cohomology of Alexander quandles of the form F_q[T]/(T-omega), where F_q denotes the finite field of order q and omega is an element of F-q which is neither 0 nor 1. As a result, we obtain many concrete examples of non-trivial 3-cocycles.


Elements of the third cohomology of a finite quandle can be used to define invariants of knotted surfaces in \(S^4\), see for example [\textit{J. S. Carter, D. Jelsovsky, S. Kamada, L. Langford} and \textit{M. Saito}, Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 355, 3947--3989 (2003; Zbl 1028.57003)]. In this paper, the author computes the third cohomology of finite Alexander quandles of the form \(\mathbb{Z}_p[t^{\pm 1}]/(t-a)\) for \(p\) prime.











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