Study of quandle coloring quivers with dihedral quandles.
problem Link invariants and their enhancements using quandles.
method Introduced shadow quandle coloring quivers and cocycle quivers, studied equivalence with quandle coloring numbers and shadow quandle cocycle invariants.
result Equivalence of quandle coloring quivers with quandle coloring numbers and shadow quandle cocycle quivers with shadow quandle cocycle invariants for specific dihedral quandles.
Study on quandle coloring quivers for (p, 2)-torus knots and links.
problem Understanding quandle colorings of (p, 2)-torus knots and links.
method Introduced quandle coloring quivers and studied them for dihedral quandles.
result Characterized quandle coloring quivers for (p, 2)-torus knots and links.
The study characterizes torus links' coloring quivers using dihedral quandles.
problem Characterizing the structure of coloring quivers for torus links.
method Exhaustively determining all possible numbers of colorings and their interconnections.
result The quiver structure varies based on the number of colorings.
New polynomial invariants from quandle action quivers.
problem Classical and virtual knot and link invariants.
method Categorification of quandle counting invariant using quandle action quivers.
result Quandle action polynomials as decategorifications.
In-degree quiver polynomials for surface-links computed.
problem Computing in-degree quiver polynomials for surface-links.
method Defined using a quandle and set of endomorphisms, computed for surface-links with ch-index up to 10.
result Example computations for surface-links with ch-index up to 10.
Enhanced invariant for linkoids using quivers.
problem Counting invariants for linkoids.
method Use of quivers to generalize in-degree polynomial invariant.
result Introduced in-degree quiver polynomial matrix as a new invariant.
New polynomial invariants for knots and links from quandle coloring quiver decategorification.
problem Defining new polynomial invariants for knots and links.
method Decategorification of the quandle coloring quiver to create polynomial invariants.
result The invariants are not determined by the quandle counting invariant.
Enhances psyquandle invariants for singular and pseudoknots.
problem Counting invariants for singular knots and pseudoknots.
method Uses quivers to extend in-degree polynomial invariants.
result Obtains biquandle coloring quivers and in-degree polynomial invariants.
We consider a quiver structure on the set of quandle colorings of an oriented knot or link diagram. This structure contains a wealth of knot and link invariants and provides a categorification of the quandle counting invariant in the most literal sense, i.e., giving the set of quandle colorings the structure of a small…
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 turns the quandle cocycle invariant into a small category, yielding a categorifica…
Enhances knot and link invariants using quandle modules.
problem Distinguishing knots and links using polynomial invariants.
method Integrates quandle modules into the quandle coloring quiver.
result The enhanced invariant distinguishes knots and links.
New invariants defined for knots and links using quandle representations.
problem Defining new invariants for knots and links.
method Defined a family of quiver representations associated to finite quandles, abelian groups, and quandle 2-cocycles.
result Computed four new polynomial invariants for knots and links.
New colored link invariants using multi-quandles.
problem Developing new invariants for colored links.
method Introducing multi-quandles and topological multi-quandles.
result New colored link invariants created.
Symmetric quandles provide new insights into link colorings.
problem Understanding link colorings using quandles.
method Construction of symmetric quandles and isomorphism of their cohomology groups.
result Homology groups of quandles are isomorphic to those of their symmetric doubles.
A quandle coloring obstruction prevents a specific link from being ribbon concordant.
problem Obstructing a specific link from being ribbon concordant.
method Symmetric dihedral quandle coloring analysis.
result A symmetric dihedral quandle of order 4 cannot color a specific surface-link, obstructing ribbon concordance.
New link colorings using quandle rings and idempotents are stronger than existing methods.
problem Improving the quandle coloring invariant of links.
method Using quandle rings and their idempotents to enhance the quandle coloring invariant.
result The new invariants are stronger than the $\Hom$ quandle invariant for certain coloring quandles.
This paper establishes a correspondence between biquandle and quandle colorings for classical and surface links.
problem Finding refined invariants for classical and surface links using biquandles.
method Explicit one-to-one correspondence between biquandle colorings and quandle colorings.
result Biquandle homotopy invariants and quandle homotopy invariants are equivalent.
Paper studies knotoid chirality using shadow quandle colorings and invariants.
problem Distinguishing knotoids from their mirrors.
method Shadow quandle colorings and cocycle invariants.
result Knotoid 31 is shown to be chiral. In this paper, we study the colorability of link diagrams by the Alexander quandles. We show that if the reduced Alexander polynomial ΔL(t) is vanishing, then L admits a non-trivial coloring by any non-trivial Alexander quandle Q, and that if ΔL(t)=1, then L admits only the trivial coloring by any Alexa…
Paper provides criteria to detect non-admissible quandles via coloring.
problem Determining non-admissibility of quandles.
method Using colorings of (1, 1)-tangles to detect non-admissibility.
result Constructed numerous non-admissible quandles.
This paper studies quandles with one non-trivial column and their properties.
problem Understanding quandles with exactly one non-trivially permuted column.
method Investigates automorphism groups, polynomials, cohomology, and hom quandles of quandles with one non-trivial column.
result The properties of these quandles relate to linking number.
If a knot has the Alexander polynomial not equal to 1, then it is linear n-colorable. By means of such a coloring, such a knot is given an upper bound for the minimal quandle order, i.e., the minimal order of a quandle with which the knot is quandle colorable. For twist knots, we study the minimal quandle orders in d…
We present a set of 26 finite quandles that distinguish (up to reversal and mirror image) by number of colorings, all of the 2977 prime oriented knots with up to 12 crossings. We also show that 1058 of these knots can be distinguished from their mirror images by the number of colorings by quandles from a certain set of…
Quandle colorings and cocycle invariants are studied for composite knots, and applied to chirality and abelian extensions. The square and granny knots, for example, can be distinguished by quandle colorings, so that a trefoil and its mirror can be distinguished by quandle invariants of composite knots. We investigate t…
New knot invariants derived from biquandle quivers.
problem Enhancing knot invariants for virtual and classical knots.
method Categorification using biquandle coloring quivers.
result New infinite families of polynomial invariants.
Relations will be described between the quandle cocycle invariant and the minimal number of colors used for non-trivial Fox colorings of knots and links. In particular, a lower bound for the minimal number is given in terms of the quandle cocycle invariant.
The state-sum invariants for knots and knotted surfaces defined from quandle cocycles are described using the Kronecker product between cycles represented by colored knot diagrams and a cocycle of a finite quandle used to color the diagram. Such an interpretation is applied to evaluating the invariants. Algebraic inter…
Explains biquandle brackets and quivers for a topology talk.
problem None explicitly stated; focuses on background information.
method Review of biquandle concepts and related structures.
result Clarifies understanding of biquandle bracket quivers.
New categorifications of biquandle brackets defined.
problem Categorify biquandle invariants of knots and links.
method Define biquandle bracket quivers to enhance biquandle counting invariants.
result Provides an infinite family of categorifications of the Jones polynomial.
New algebraic structures help categorify link invariants.
problem Classifying and distinguishing links and virtual links.
method Introducing mc-biquandles and categorifying homsets.
result New link invariants defined via mc-biquandle coloring quivers.
We define a functor Q from the category of multiple conjugation biquandles to that of multiple conjugation quandles. We show that for any multiple conjugation biquandle X, there is a one-to-one correspondence between the set of X-colorings and that of Q(X)-colorings diagrammatically for any …
New R-equivalence classes found for torus knot diagrams.
problem Classifying colorings of torus knots.
method Introducing R-equivalence relation on quandle colorings.
result Determined R-equivalence classes for RotE2-colorings of torus knots. The paper connects knot representations and spherical quandle colorings.
problem Defining the Casson-Lin invariant for knots.
method One-to-one correspondence between SU(2)-representations and spherical quandle colorings. result Geometric interpretation of the trace-free condition for the Casson-Lin invariant.
Polynomial invariant of quandles counts random link colorings.
problem Counting Q-colorings of random braids in quandles. method Average number of Q-colorings for large n. result The average number of Q-colorings coincides with a polynomial PQ. Improved lower bound for knot coloring using quandles.
problem Finding the minimum number of colors for knot colorings.
method Using quandles and reduced Alexander polynomials, we improved the lower bound.
result The lower bound is exactly k + 1 for L-space knots.
Study satellite knots and their quandles related to incompressible tori.
problem Understanding quandles of satellite knots and their components.
method Algebraic approach to augmented fundamental quandles, presentations of fundamental quandles, and analysis of Alexander modules.
result Relationships between satellite knots, companion and pattern knots, and their fundamental quandles.
The paper explores knotoid invariants on the plane using quandles and cocycles.
problem Classifying planar knotoids due to their complexity and lack of invariants.
method Investigates equivalence of planar knotoids using quandle colorings and cocycle invariants.
result Introduces a new invariant called the triangular quandle cocycle invariant.
Enhanced symplectic quandle colorings detect causal structure in spacetime diagrams.
problem Detecting causal structure in spacetime diagrams using polynomial invariants.
method Comparing symplectic quandle colorings of different diagrams representing spacetime connections.
result Enhanced symplectic quandle colorings consistently distinguish between causally unrelated and related spacetime configurations.
We investigate the relationship between the quandle and biquandle coloring invariant and obtain an enhancement of the quandle and biquandle coloring invariants using biquandle structures. We also continue the study of biquandle homomorphisms into a medial biquandle begun by the second author et al., finding biquandle a…
The number of colorings of a knot diagram by a quandle has been shown to be a knot invariant by CJKLS using quandle cohomology methods. In a previous paper by the second named author, the CJKLS invariant was refined and, in particular, it was shown that the number of colorings is an invariant directly without resorting…
We define new invariants of knots by means of quandle colorings and longitudinal information. These invariants can be applied to a tangle embedding problem and recognizing non-classical virtual knots.
The set consisting of all rotations of the Euclidean plane is equipped with a quandle structure. We show that a knot is colorable by this quandle if and only if its Alexander polynomial has a root on the unit circle in C. Further we enumerate all non-trivial colorings of a torus knot diagram by the quandle u…
New geometric proof for rational tangles links-quivers correspondence.
problem Recovering symmetric/antisymmetric colored HOMFLY-PT polynomials from a quiver.
method Geometric approach using winding numbers in punctured plane and its second configuration space.
result Explicit description of quivers for rational tangles.
Enhanced coloring invariant distinguishes folded molecular chain topologies.
problem Apparent indistinguishability of folded chain topologies using current coloring invariants.
method Introduced Boltzmann weights to improve the resolving power of quandle colorings.
result Improved resolution in distinguishing folded chain topologies.
The paper studies parabolic representations of 2-bridge links using symplectic quandles.
problem Parabolic representations of 2-bridge links.
method Convert conjugation quandle equations to symplectic quandle equations, using a polynomial PK(u) to find arc coloring vectors. result Explicit formulas for parabolic representations of 2-bridge links are derived, including complex volume and cusp shape.
The paper introduces a new coloring invariant for spatial surfaces using a multiple group rack.
problem Distinguishing spatial surfaces embedded in the 3-sphere.
method Defined a coloring invariant using a multiple group rack.
result Introduced a new invariant to distinguish spatial surfaces.
The abstract conjectures a link between knot homologies and quiver partition functions.
problem Understanding the relationship between knot homologies and quiver partition functions.
method Interpreting quiver nodes as holomorphic curves with boundary on the knot conormal, and studying recursion relations.
result Generalized quiver partition functions are related to knot homologies.
Quandle cocycles are constructed from extensions of quandles. The theory is parallel to that of group cohomology and group extensions. An interpretation of quandle cocycle invariants as obstructions to extending knot colorings is given, and is extended to links component-wise.