Reorienting quandle orbits

2024/11/18 by Traldi, Lorenzo
#FOS: Mathematics #Geometric Topology (math.GT)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2411.11763

Abstract

Motivated by knot theory, it is natural to define the orientation-reversal of a quandle orbit by inverting all the translations given by elements of that orbit. In this short note we observe that this natural notion is unsuited to medial quandles.

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