Questions tagged [quandles]
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Symmetric spaces are quandles. Is this important?
For concreteness, let's consider a connected reductive Lie group $G$, and an involution $\theta$ on it. Then the associated symmetric space $X=G/G^\theta$ has the structure of an involutive quandle: ...
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Higher homotopical information in racks and quandles
A quandle is defined to be a set $Q$ with two binary operations $\star,\bar\star\colon\ Q\times Q\to Q$ for which the following axioms hold.
Q1. a $\star$ a = a
Q2. (a $\star$ b) $\bar\star$ b = (a $\...
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When do two knots have isomorphic fundamental bikeis?
A kei, also known as an involutive (or involutory) quandle, is a quandle $(Q,*)$ satisfying the involution condition that $(x*y)*y=x$ for all $x$ and $y$. Just like we can define a fundamental ...
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Hemi-semi direct product of racks or quandles
In the category of racks (similarly quandles), instead of well-known semidirect product, we have the hemi-semi direct product construction as seen on Wagemann & Crans.
As far as I know, semi ...
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Partial information decomposition for tangle machines
In (Williams and Beer, 2010), they define the partial information decomposition (PID) as a generalization of Shannon's Mutual Information for multiple information sources. Their key insight is that ...
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Is the action of free self-distributive algebras on racks computable in polynomial time?
Let $B_{\infty}$ denote the infinite strand braid group. Let
$\mathrm{sh}:B_{\infty}\rightarrow B_{\infty}$ be the mapping where
$\mathrm{sh}(\sigma_{i})=\sigma_{i+1}$ whenever $i\geq 1$. Then
$B_{\...