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Knots in Washington XXX; Categorification, Quantum knots and Quantum computing
May 19-21, 2010
George Washington University
Washington, DC, USA

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

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(t, s) racks and their knot invariants
by
Jessica Ceniceros
Claremont McKenna College
Coauthors: Sam Nelson

Racks are self-distributive algebraic structures with axioms inspired by the Reidemeister moves. In this talk, we define an enhancement of the rack counting invariant for knots and links using the extra structure of (t-s) racks, a type of rack which generalizes Alexander quandles.

Date received: April 27, 2010

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