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Virtual doodles and a quandle type invariant
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Naoko Kamada
Nagoya City University
Coauthors: Andrew Bartholomew, Roger Fenn, Seiichi Kamada
A doodle was defined by R. Fenn and P. Tayler in 1979. In their definition, a doodle is an equivalence class of a collection of embedded circles in the 2-sphere by Reidemeister move of type II. M. Khovanov extended it to immersed circles in 2-sphere. We generalize it to immersed circles on surfaces modulo surface surgeries besides Reidemeister moves of type I and II. Then doodles on surfaces correspond to virtual doodles on the plane. We also discuss a quandle type invariant for virtual doodle.
Date received: September 15, 2016
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