Extensions of Quandles and Cocycle Knot Invariants
Knot theory has rapidly expanded in recent years. New representations of braid groups led to an extremely powerful polynomial invariant, the Jones polynomial. Combinatorics applied to knot and link diagrams led to generalizations. Knot theory also has connections with other fields such as statistica...
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Scholar Commons
2002
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| Online Access: | https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/1513 https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2512&context=etd |