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Quandle Cocycle Quivers

Geometric Topology 2019-04-22 v1

Abstract

We incorporate quandle cocycle information into the quandle coloring quivers we defined in arXiv:1807.10465 to define weighted directed graph-valued invariants of oriented links we call \textit{quandle cocycle quivers}. This construction turns the quandle cocycle invariant into a small category, yielding a categorification of the quandle cocycleinvariant. From these graphs we define several new link invariants including a 2-variable polynomial which specializes to the usual quandle cocycle invariant. Examples and computations are provided.

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@article{arxiv.1904.09207,
  title  = {Quandle Cocycle Quivers},
  author = {Karina Cho and Sam Nelson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.09207},
  year   = {2019}
}

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9 pages

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