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td style=
"background-color: white;">A quandle (Q, ▹) is a non-empty
set Q equipped with a binary operation ▹ : Q × Q → Q satisfying the
following axioms:<
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1/ ∀∃∈For all a ∈ Q, a ▹ a = a.<
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2/ ∀ a, b ∈ Q, ∃! c ∈ Q such that a = c ▹ b.<
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3/ ∀ a, b, c ∈ Q, (a ▹ b) ▹ c = (a ▹ c) ▹ (b ▹ c).<
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One can check that for any group G and n ∈ ℤ, the magma (G, ▹) forms
a quandle with the operation x ▹ y = y<
sup>-n</
sup>xy<
sup>n</
sup> ,
∀ x, y ∈ G. Such a quandle is called the n-Fold Conjugation Quandle.<
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A quandle <
em>Q</
em> is said to be connected if the inner
automorphism group <
em>Inn Q</
em> acts transitively on <
em>Q</
em>.
In other words, <
em>Q</
em> is connected if and only if for each
pair a, b in <
em>Q</
em> there are a<
sub>1</
sub>, a<
sub>2</
sub>, . .
. , a<
sub>n</
sub> in <
em>Q</
em> such that a ▹ a<
sub>1</
sub> ▹· · ·
▹ a<
sub>n</
sub> = b.<
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A quandle <
em>Q</
em> is said to be latin if ∀ a, b ∈ <
em>Q</
em>, ∃
c ∈<
em> Q</
em> such that a = b ▹ c.</
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"background-color: #ffffcc;">gap> Q:=Quandle(5,21);<
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<magma with 5 generators><
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gap> Display(MultiplicationTable(Q));<
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[ [ 1, 3, 4, 5, 2 ],<
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[ 3, 2, 5, 1, 4 ],<
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[ 4, 5, 3, 2, 1 ],<
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[ 5, 1, 2, 4, 3 ],<
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[ 2, 4, 1, 3, 5 ] ]<
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gap> IsConnectedQuandle(Q);<
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true<
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gap> IsLatin(Q);<
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true<
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"background-color: white;">Let Q be a set, e an element in
Q, G a permutation group, and stigma an element in G.<
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Then (Q,G,e,stigma) describes a Quandle Envelope if :<
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li>G is a transitive group on Q.</
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li>stigma ∈ Z(G<
sub>e</
sub>), the
center of the stabilizer of e.</
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li>⟨stigma<
sup>G</
sup>⟩ = G (that is, the smallest normal
subgroup of G containing stigma is all of G).</
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can construct a Quandle (Q, ▹):</p>
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for all x,y in Q,
x ▹ y=(ŷ(stigma))(x)
, where ŷ ∈ G satisfies ŷ(e)=y.</p>
<p
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connected. This property is used to construct all the connected
quandles of size n.</p>
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"background-color: #ffffcc;">gap> Q:=[1..9];; e:=2;;
G:=TransitiveGroup(9,15);; st:=(1,8,7,4,9,5,3,6);;<
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gap> IsQuandleEnvelope(Q,G,e,st);
QE:=QuandleQuandleEnvelope(Q,G,e,st);<
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true<
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<magma with 9 generators><
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gap> IsQuandle(QE); IsConnectedQuandle(QE);<
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true<
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true<
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gap> ConnectedQuandles(20);
time;<
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[ <magma with 20 generators>, <magma with 20
generators>, <magma with 20 generators>, <
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<magma with 20 generators>, <magma with 20
generators>, <magma with 20 generators>, <
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<magma with 20 generators>, <magma with 20
generators>, <magma with 20 generators>, <
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<magma with 20 generators> ]<
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's denote Rx the
mapping defined by R<
sub>x</
sub> : Q→Q, y ↦y▹x.<
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We define the right multiplication group G of a quandle Q by G=〈R<
sub>x</
sub>,
x ∈ Q〉.<
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We also define the automorphism group Aut(Q)={f:Q→Q}.<
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It can be proven that R<
sub>x</
sub> is a subgroup of Aut(Q).</
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Q:=ConnectedQuandle(8,2);; q:=Random(Q);<
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m6<
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gap> A:=AutomorphismGroupQuandle(Q);; a:=Random(A);;<
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gap> q^a;<
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m4<
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gap> R:=RightMultiplicationGroupOfQuandle(Q);; r:=Random(R);;<
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gap> q^r;<
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td style=
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embedding of the circle S<
sup>1</
sup> in ℝ<
sup>3</
sup>.<
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To study these structures, we use knot diagrams, which are
projections of these knots into ℝ<
sup>2</
sup>, defined, for
instance, by f : ℝ<
sup>3</
sup> → ℝ<
sup>2</
sup>; (x,y,z) → (x,y)<
sup></
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subject to the constraint that the preimage of any (x, y) ∈ ℝ<
sup>2</
sup>
contains at most two points.<
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Crossing points occur when the preimage of a point in ℝ<
sup>2</
sup>
contains more than one point.<
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At these crossing points, we denote the point in the preimage that
is nearer to the ℝ<
sup>2</
sup> plane as the under-crossing point and
the point farther away as the over-crossing point. An arc is a line
that connects two crossing points in the knot diagram, with a line
break occurring when an undercrossing point is mapped to the arc.<
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We may give a knot diagram an orientation, i.e. a direction of
travelling around the knot. This allows us to categorize crossings
as either positive or negative:
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There exists different ways to describe a knot diagram: Planar
Diagram, Gauss
Code, Dowker Notation, Conway Notation.</
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An other way to describe a knot is to use quandles. From a knot K,
we can construct the knot quandle Q(K), whose generators are the
arcs of K, and relations are associated to the crossings:<
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This
figure gives us
"a ▹ b = c" at a negative crossing, and
"a ▹-1
b = c
" (or "c ▹ b = a
") at a positive one.