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FINITENESS OF CANONICAL QUOTIENTS OF DEHN QUANDLES OF SURFACES

Published:2024-03-11 Issue: Volume: Page:1-18
ISSN:1446-7887
Container-title:Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society
language:en
Short-container-title:J. Aust. Math. Soc.

Author:

DHANWANI NEERAJ K.,SINGH MAHENDER

Abstract

Abstract The Dehn quandle of a closed orientable surface is the set of isotopy classes of nonseparating simple closed curves with a natural quandle structure arising from Dehn twists. In this paper, we consider the finiteness of some canonical quotients of these quandles. For a surface of positive genus, we give a precise description of the 2-quandle of its Dehn quandle. Further, with some exceptions for genus more than 2, we determine all values of n for which the n-quandle of its Dehn quandle is finite. The result can be thought of as the Dehn quandle analogue of a similar result of Hoste and Shanahan for link quandles [‘Links with finite n-quandles’, Algebr. Geom. Topol.17(5) (2017), 2807–2823]. We also compute the size of the smallest nontrivial quandle quotient of the Dehn quandle of a surface. Along the way, we prove that the involutory quotient of an Artin quandle is precisely the corresponding Coxeter quandle, and also determine the smallest nontrivial quotient of a braid quandle.

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (CUP)

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