This paper is a survey of several papers in quandle homology theory and cocycle knot invariants that have been published recently. Here we describe cocycle knot invariants that are defined in a state-sum form, quandle homology, and methods of constructing non-trivial cohomology classes.
@article{arxiv.math/0112026,
title = {Quandle Homology Theory and Cocycle Knot Invariants},
author = {J. Scott Carter and Masahico Saito},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0112026},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
This is a survey article in recent results on the invariants of knots and knotted surfaces derived from quandle homology