Quandle colorings vs. biquandle colorings
Abstract
Biquandles are generalizations of quandles. As well as quandles, biquandles give us many invariants for oriented classical/virtual/surface links. Some invariants derived from biquandles are known to be stronger than those from quandles for virtual links. However, we have not found an essentially refined invariant for classical/surface links so far. In this paper, we give an explicit one-to-one correspondence between biquandle colorings and quandle colorings for classical/surface links. We also show that biquandle homotopy invariants and quandle homotopy invariants are equivalent. As a byproduct, we can interpret biquandle cocycle invariants in terms of shadow quandle cocycle invariants.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1912.12917,
title = {Quandle colorings vs. biquandle colorings},
author = {Katsumi Ishikawa and Kokoro Tanaka},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.12917},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
25 pages, 23 figures; Remark 6.1 is revised and there are other minor revisions