Matrices and finite quandles

DOI10.4310/HHA.2005.V7.N1.A11MaRDI QIDQ2575116zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Benita Ho, Sam Nelson

Publication date 5 December 2005

Published in Homology, Homotopy and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0412417, http://intlpress.com/hha/v7/n1/

zbMATH Keywords

matrixquandle

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Abstract: Finite quandles with n elements can be represented as n-by-n matrices. We show how to use these matrices to distinguish all isomorphism classes of finite quandles for a given cardinality n, as well as how to compute the automorphism group of each finite quandle. As an application, we classify finite quandles with up to 5 elements and compute the automorphism group for each quandle.

Review text

A set \(Q\) with a binary operation \(\triangleright: Q\times Q\to Q\) is called a quandle if (i) \(a\triangleright a=a\) for any \(a\in Q\), (ii) for every pair \(a\) and \(b\in Q\), there uniquely exists \(c\in Q\) such that \(a=c\triangleright b\), and (iii) \((a\triangleright b)\triangleright c=(a\triangleright c)\triangleright(b\triangleright c)\) for any \(a\), \(b\), and \(c\in Q\). In this paper the authors introduce an \(n\times n\) matrix corresponding to a quandle with \(n\) elements. Its \((i,j)\)-entry is defined to be \(x_i\triangleright x_j\) if \(Q=\{x_1,x_2,\dots, x_n\}\). They give a condition that a given matrix can be associated with a quandle with finite elements, and consider the automorphism group of such a quandle. They also classify quandles with up to five elements and compute their automorphism groups. Related results were obtained by \textit{H.~Ryder} [Commun. Algebra 23, No. 13, 4971--4989 (1995; Zbl 0842.57011)].

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