English

A knotted 2-dimensional foam with non-trivial cocycle invariant

Geometric Topology 2012-06-22 v1 Quantum Algebra

Abstract

By 2-twist-spinning the knotted graph that represents the knotted handlebody 525_2, we obtain a knotted foam in 4-dimensional space with a non-trivial quandle cocycle invariant.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.1206.4750,
  title  = {A knotted 2-dimensional foam with non-trivial cocycle invariant},
  author = {J. Scott Carter and Atsushi Ishii},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1206.4750},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

14 pages and lots of very nice figures. To appear RIMS publications proceedings of the conference on Intelligence of Low Dimensional Topology 2012