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Knots in Washington XXII
May 5-7, 2006
George Washington University
Washington, DC, USA

Organizers
Jozef H. Przytycki (GWU), przytyck@gwu.edu, Yongwu Rong (GWU), rong@gwu.edu, Alexander Shumakovitch (GWU), shurik@gwu.edu

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Quandle difference invariants
by
Sam Nelson
University of California, Riverside
Coauthors: Natasha Harrell

We will describe a method of detecting non-classicality of virtual knots using the fact that a virtual knot may have non-isomorphic upper and lower quandles. This method can be used with any invariant of virtual knots.

Date received: April 25, 2006

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