Quandles of cyclic type with several fixed points

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Authors: António Lages, Pedro Lopes 

Publication date: 28 March 2018

Abstract: A quandle of cyclic type of order $n$ with $fgeq2$ fixed points is such that each of its permutations splits into $f$ cycles of length $1$ and one cycle of length $n-f$. In this article we prove that there is only one such connected quandle, up to isomorphism. This is a quandle of order $6$ and $2$ fixed points, known in the literature as octahedron quandle. We prove also that, for each $fgeq2$, the non-connected versions of these quandles only occur for orders $n$ in the range $f+2leqnleq2f$ and that, for each $f>1$, there is only one such quandle of order $2f$ with $f$ fixed points, up to isomorphism. Still in the range $f+2leqnleq2f$, we present sufficient conditions for the existence of such quandles, writing down their permutations; we also show how to obtain new quandles form old ones, leaning on the notion of common fixed point.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Sets with a single binary operation (groupoids) (20N02)

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