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Hurwitz equivalence in the universal dihedral quandle

Geometric Topology 2026-03-20 v2

Abstract

We investigate the Hurwitz action of the mm-braid group on the mm-fold Cartesian product of the universal dihedral quandle. We introduce three computable invariants and prove that they give a complete classification of the orbits under this action. As a consequence, we describe an explicit complete system of orbit representatives. We further obtain analogous classifications for the corresponding Hurwitz actions of the pure mm-braid group, the virtual mm-braid group, and the virtual pure mm-braid group.

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@article{arxiv.2410.11599,
  title  = {Hurwitz equivalence in the universal dihedral quandle},
  author = {Takuji Nakamura and Yasutaka Nakanishi and Shin Satoh and Kodai Wada},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.11599},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

22 pages. The original manuscript has been split into two separate papers. This version (v2) contains the first part; the second part will appear as a separate submission