Kei modules and unoriented link invariants

DOI10.4310/HHA.2014.V16.N1.A10zbMATH Open1310.57024arXiv1102.4366MaRDI QIDQ740171FDOQ740171

Authors: Michael Grier, Sam Nelson 

Publication date: 2 September 2014

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

Abstract: We define invariants of unoriented knots and links by enhancing the integral kei counting invariant Phi_X^Z (K) for a finite kei X using representations of the kei algebra, Z_K[X], a quotient of the quandle algebra Z[X] defined by Andruskiewitsch and Grana. We give an example that demonstrates that the enhanced invariant is stronger than the unenhanced kei counting invariant. As an application, we use a quandle module over the Takasaki kei on Z_3 which is not a Z_K[X]-module to detect the non-invertibility of a virtual knot.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1102.4366

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zbMATH Keywords

enhancement of couting invariantsinvolutory quandlekei algebrakei module

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• Bikei, involutory biracks and unoriented link invariants
• Bikei module invariants of unoriented surface-links
• Biquandle module invariants of oriented surface-links
• Birack modules and their link invariants

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