Matthew Green — Page 2

arXiv2014

Ternary Distributive Structures and Quandles

We introduce a notion of ternary distributive algebraic structure, give examples, and relate it to the notion of a quandle. Classification is given for low order structures of this type. Constructions of such structures from ternary bialgebras are provided. We also describe ternary distributive algebraic structures coming from groups and give examples from vector spaces whose bases are elements of a finite ternary distributive set. We introduce a cohomology theory that is analogous to Hochschild cohomology and relate it to a formal deformation theory of these structures.

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arXiv2013

Augmented Biracks and their Homology

We introduce augmented biracks and define a (co)homology theory associated to augmented biracks. The new homology theory extends the previously studied Yang-Baxter homology with a combinatorial formulation for the boundary map and specializes to $N$-reduced rack homology when the birack is a rack. We introduce augmented birack 2-cocycle invariants of classical and virtual knots and links and provide examples.

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