A (Z⊕Z)-family of knot quandles (Jim Hoste, Pitzer College)
Suppose K is an oriented knot in a 3-manifold M with regular neighborhood N (K). For each element γ ∈ π 1 (∂N (K)) we define a quandle Q γ (K; M) which generalizes the concept of the fundamental quandle of a knot. In particular, when γ is the meridian of K, we obtain the […]