biquandle

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noun

A generalisation of a quandle that is a form of a birack

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Meanings

nounbiquandle (plural biquandles)

plural biquandles

  1. mathematicsA generalisation of a quandle that is a form of a birack

    We provide examples demonstrating that the new invariants are not determined by the biquandle counting invariant, the knot quandle, the knot group or the traditional skein invariants..

    2015, Sam Nelson, Michael E. Orrison, Veronica Rivera, “Quantum Enhancements and Biquandle Brackets”, in arXiv

Origin

From bi- + quandle.

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Chicago

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