English

Singquandles, Psyquandles and Singular Knots: A Survey

Geometric Topology 2021-03-10 v1

Abstract

In this short survey we review recent results dealing with algebraic structures (quandles, psyquandles, and singquandles) related to singular knot theory. We first explore the singquandles counting invariant and then consider several recent enhancements to this invariant. These enhancements include a singquandle cocycle invariant and several polynomial invariants of singular knots obtained from the singquandle structure. We then explore psyquandles which can be thought of as generalizations of oriented signquandles, and review recent developments regarding invariants of singular knots obtained from psyquandles.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2103.05620,
  title  = {Singquandles, Psyquandles and Singular Knots: A Survey},
  author = {Jose Ceniceros and Indu R. Churchill and Mohamed Elhamdadi and Mustafa Hajij},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.05620},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

19 pages. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2101.08775