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Quandle Cocycle Invariants of Knots

In this chapter, we define quandle cocycle invariants for classical knots and knotted surfaces. Details of algebraic aspects of homology and cohomology of quandles will be discussed in a later chapter, and here we limit discussions of cocycles to functions used as weights, and present useful polynomial cocycles.



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