Parity biquandle
We use crossing parity to construct a generalization of biquandles for virtual knots which we call parity biquandles. These structures include all biquandles as a standard example referred to as the even parity biquandle. We find all parity biquandles arising from the Alexander biquandle and quaternionic biquandles. For a particular construction named the z-parity Alexander biquandle we show that the associated polynomial yields a lower bound on the number of odd crossings as well as the total number...