Partially Multiplicative Biquandles and Handlebody-Knots
Geometric Topology
2016-04-27 v2 Quantum Algebra
Abstract
We introduce several algebraic structures related to handlebody-knots, including -families of biquandles, partially multiplicative biquandles and group decomposable biquandles. These structures can be used to color the semiarcs in -oriented spatial trivalent graph diagrams representing -oriented handlebody-knots to obtain computable invariants for handlebody-knots and handlebody-links. In the case of -families of biquandles, we enhance the counting invariant using the group to obtain a polynomial invariant of handlebody-knots.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.1602.05865,
title = {Partially Multiplicative Biquandles and Handlebody-Knots},
author = {Atsushi Ishii and Sam Nelson},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.05865},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
16 pages; version 2 includes small typo corrections. To appear in Contemporary Mathematics