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Knots in Washington XXVII; 3rd Japan-USA Workshop in Knot Theory
January 9-11, 2009
George Washington University
Washington, DC, USA

Organizers
Yoshiyuki Ohyama (TWCU), Jozef H. Przytycki (GWU), Yongwu Rong (GWU), Alexander Shumakovitch (GWU), Kouki Taniyama (Waseda and GWU), Tatsuya Tsukamoto (Osaka IT), Hao Wu (GWU), Akira Yasuhara (Tokyo GU)

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Link invariants from finite racks
by
Sam Nelson
Claremont McKenna College

We construct invariants of unframed knots and links from finite racks and show how these invariants extend the familiar quandle counting invariants. We discuss enhancements of these invariants via rack 2-cocycles and rack polynomials.

Paper reference: 0808.0029

Date received: October 21, 2008

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