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Introduction to Quandles and Their Cohomology
by
J. Scott Carter
University of South Alabama
Coauthors: Alissa Crans,
Mohamed Elhamdadi,
Matias Graña,
Daniel Jelsovsky,
Seiichi Kamada,
Laurel Langford,
Masahico Saito,
Shin Satoh
In this talk, I present the Joyce, Matveev, representation of quandles as inner automorphisms on a coset space. This representation is related to the fundamental quandle as a knot classifier. I will present some other examples of quandles and describe the basic idea of quandle cohomology. I will finish the talk with a discussion of
algebras, co-algebras, shelf algebras, and their related diagrammatic descriptions. This will provide a seque to Masahico Saito's talk later during the conference.
Date received: April 17, 2006
Copyright © 2006 by the author(s). The author(s) of this work and the organizers of the conference have granted their consent to include this abstract in Topology Atlas. Document # casv-07.