Topological Quandles and Invariants of Links
Geometric Topology
2007-05-23 v1 Algebraic Topology
Abstract
We introduce a notion of topological quandle. Given a topological quandle we associate to every classical link in an invariant which is a topological space (defined up to a homeomorphism). The space can be interpreted as a space of colourings of a diagram of the link with colours from the quandle .
Cite
@article{arxiv.math/0508536,
title = {Topological Quandles and Invariants of Links},
author = {Ryszard L. Rubinsztein},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0508536},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
18 pages, 8 figures