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Knots in Washington XXVI Interconnections between Khovanov, Khovanov-Rozansky and Ozvath-Szabo homology, categorification of skein modules
April 18-20, 2008
George Washington University
Washington, DC, USA

Organizers
Jozef H. Przytycki (GWU), Yongwu Rong (GWU), Alexander Shumakovitch (GWU), Hao Wu (GWU)

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Enhancements of Counting Invariants
by
Sam Nelson
Pomona College

The number of colorings of a link diagram by finite quandle is an easily computable link invariant. We will look at a number of ways of strengthening these counting invariants for certain types of coloring quandles by exploiting the quandle's extra structure.

Paper reference: arXiv:0801.2979

Date received: March 2, 2008

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