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On tangle embeddings; quandles and quandle polynomials
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Maciej Niebrzydowski
The George Washington University
I'll discuss recent work on applications of quandles to embeddings of tangles into long knots. We describe invariants obtained from quandle colorings and quandle longitudes that can be used to find obstructions to tangle embeddings.
Date received: May 5, 2006
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