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Knots in Washington XXIX; 30 years of quandles, 10 years of Khovanov homology
December 4-6, 2009
George Washington University
Washington, DC, USA

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

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Rack shadows and their invariants
by
Sam Nelson
Claremont McKenna College
Coauthors: Wesley Chang

A rack shadow is a set with an action by a rack, analogous to a vector space with a scalar multiplication. The set of colorings of a link diagram by a rack shadow yields various enhanced counting invariants. We will examine a few such invariants.

Date received: October 23, 2009

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