Racks, Quandles and Virtual Knots
We begin with a brief survey of the theory of virtual knots, which was announced in 1996 by Kauffman. This leads naturally to the subject of quandles and quandle homology, which we also briefly introduce. Chapter 2 contains a proof in terms of Gauss diagrams that the forbidden moves unknot virtual k...
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| Language: | en |
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LSU
2002
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| Online Access: | http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-0708102-152502/ |