Qualgebras and knotted 3-valent graphs

Victoria Lebed

Fundamenta Mathematicae (2015)

  • Volume: 230, Issue: 2, page 167-204
  • ISSN: 0016-2736

Abstract

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This paper is devoted to new algebraic structures, called qualgebras and squandles. Topologically, they emerge as an algebraic counterpart of knotted 3-valent graphs, just like quandles can be seen as an "algebraization" of knots. Algebraically, they are modeled after groups with conjugation and multiplication/squaring operations. We discuss basic properties of these structures, and introduce and study the notions of qualgebra/squandle 2-cocycles and 2-coboundaries. Knotted 3-valent graph invariants are constructed by counting qualgebra/squandle colorings of graph diagrams, and are further enhanced using 2-cocycles. A classification of size 4 qualgebras/squandles and a description of their second cohomology groups are given.

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Victoria Lebed. "Qualgebras and knotted 3-valent graphs." Fundamenta Mathematicae 230.2 (2015): 167-204. <http://eudml.org/doc/282635>.

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