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math.GT2014
On rack colorings for surface-knot diagrams without branch points
Kanako Oshiro, Kokoro Tanaka
Racks do not give us invariants of surface-knots in general. For example, if a surface-knot diagram has branch points (and a rack which we use satisfies some mild condition), then…
math.GT2012★ 3 cited
A -family of quandles and handlebody-knots
Atsushi Ishii, Masahide Iwakiri, Yeonhee Jang +1
We introduce the notion of a -family of quandles which is an algebraic system whose axioms are motivated by handlebody-knot theory, and use it to construct invariants for handle…