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A continuous cohomology theory for topological quandles is introduced, and compared to the algebraic theories. Extensions of topological quandles are studied with respect to continuous 2-cocycles, and used to show the differences in second…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-08-04 Mohamed Elhamdadi , Masahico Saito , Emanuele Zappala

We associate to every quandle $X$ and an associative ring with unity $\mathbf{k}$, a nonassociative ring $\mathbf{k}[X]$ following [3]. The basic properties of such rings are investigated. In particular, under the assumption that the inner…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2020-08-04 Mohamed Elhamdadi , Neranga Fernando , Boris Tsvelikhovskiy

Homomorphisms on quandle cohomology groups that raise the dimensions by one are studied in relation to the cocycle state-sum invariants of knots and knotted surfaces. Skein relations are also studied.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 J. Scott Carter , Daniel Jelsovsky , Seiichi Kamada , Masahico Saito

A quandle is an algebraic structure which attempts to generalize group conjugation. These structures have been studied extensively due to their connections with knot theory, algebraic combinatorics, and other fields. In this work, we…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2017-06-14 Eric Ramos

A quandle is an algebraic structure whose axioms correspond to the Reidemeister moves of knot theory. S. Kamada introduced the notion of a quandle with a good involution, which is later called a symmetric quandle. We are interested in the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-06-14 Yuta Taniguchi

Quandle homology was defined from rack homology as the quotient by a subcomplex corresponding to the idempotency, for invariance under the type I Reidemeister move. Similar subcomplexes have been considered for various identities of racks…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-03-01 W. Edwin Clark , Masahico Saito

A quandle of cyclic type of order $n$ with $f\geq 2$ fixed points is such that each of its permutations splits into $f$ cycles of length $1$ and one cycle of length $n-f$. In this article we prove that there is only one such connected…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2018-09-11 António Lages , Pedro Lopes

Quandle is an algebraic system with one binary operation, but it is quite different from a group. Quandle has its origin in the knot theory and good relationships with the theory of symmetric spaces, so it is well-studied from points of…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2020-05-26 Akihiro Higashitani , Hirotake Kurihara

We introduce the notion of a hierarchical quandle, which is a generalisation of diquandles and multi-quandles. Using hierarchical quandle colourings, we construct a cocycle invariants for links coloured by quandles.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-11-08 Philipp Korablev

In this paper, we give a characterization of homogeneous quandles with abelian inner automorphism groups. In particular, we show that such a quandle is expressed as an abelian extension of a trivial quandle. Our construction is a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-07-02 Takuya Saito , Sakumi Sugawara

A quandle is a self-distributive algebraic structure that appears in quasi-group and knot theories. For each abelian group A and c \in A we define a quandle G(A, c) on \Z_3 \times A. These quandles are generalizations of a class of…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2016-11-15 W. Edwin Clark , Mohamed Elhamdadi , Xiang-dong Hou , Masahico Saito , Timothy Yeatman

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…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-04-22 Karina Cho , Sam Nelson

Algebraic homology and cohomology theories for quandles have been studied extensively in recent years. With a given quandle 2(3)-cocycle one can define a state-sum invariant for knotted curves(surfaces). In this paper we introduce another…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Zhiyun Cheng , Hongzhu Gao

This article surveys many aspects of the theory of quandles which algebraically encode the Reidemeister moves. In addition to knot theory, quandles have found applications in other areas which are only mentioned in passing here. The main…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2010-02-25 J. Scott Carter

We prove that the displacement group of the dihedral quandle with n elements is isomorphic to the group generated by rotations of the n/2-gon when n is even and the n-gon when n is odd. We additionally show that any quandle with at least…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-10-31 Quinn J. M. Salix , Peyton Phinehas Wood

In this paper, we investigate structural properties of the Cayley graph of a quandle and describe this graph for several important classes of quandles, including conjugation, Takasaki, dihedral, and Alexander quandles. In particular, we…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-04-21 David Dolžan , Bogdana Oliynyk

A quandle is a set that has a binary operation satisfying three conditions corresponding to the Reidemeister moves. Homology theories of quandles have been developed in a way similar to group homology, and have been applied to knots and…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2017-03-01 J. Scott Carter , Atsushi Ishii , Masahico Saito , Kokoro Tanaka

We give a complete description of the associated group of any quandle as a central extension of the inner-automorphism group. As an application, we compute the second quandle homology groups of quandles of some families, including those of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-02-26 Katsumi Ishikawa

The homology and cohomology of quandles and racks are used in knot theory: given a finite quandle and a cocycle, we can construct a knot invariant. This is a quick introductory survey to the invariants of knots derived from quandles and…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Seiichi Kamada

We investigate the classification of topological quandles on some simple manifolds. Precisely we classify all Alexander quandle structures, up to isomorphism, on the real line and the unit circle. For the closed unit interval $[0, 1]$, we…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-07-25 Zhiyun Cheng , Mohamed Elhamdadi , Boris Shekhtman