N-quandles of links

DOI10.1016/J.TOPOL.2021.107662zbMATH Open1465.57062arXiv2012.15478OpenAlexW3116924342MaRDI QIDQ2664086FDOQ2664086

Authors: Blake Mellor, Riley Smith 

Publication date: 20 April 2021

Published in: Topology and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The fundamental quandle is a powerful invariant of knots and links, but it is difficult to describe in detail. It is often useful to look at quotients of the quandle, especially finite quotients. One natural quotient introduced by Joyce is the $n$-quandle. Hoste and Shanahan gave a complete list of the knots and links which have finite $n$-quandles for some $n$. We introduce a generalization of $n$-quandles, denoted $N$-quandles (for a quandle with $k$ algebraic components, $N$ is a $k$-tuple of positive integers). We conjecture a classification of the links with finite $N$-quandles for some $N$, and we prove one direction of the classification.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.15478

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zbMATH Keywords

fundamental quandle\(N\)-quandle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Knot theory (57K10)

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Cited In (8)

• \(N\)-quandles of spatial graphs
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• The fundamental multiple conjugation quandle of a handlebody-link
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Uses Software

• RackEnumeration

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