Multivariate Alexander quandles, III. Sublinks

Abstract

If [Formula: see text] is a classical link then the multivariate Alexander quandle, [Formula: see text], is a substructure of the multivariate Alexander module, [Formula: see text]. In the first paper of this series, we showed that if two links [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] have [Formula: see text], then after an appropriate re-indexing of the components of [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text], there will be a module isomorphism [Formula: see text] of a particular type, which we call a “Crowell equivalence.” In this paper, we show that [Formula: see text] (up to quandle isomorphism) is a strictly stronger link invariant than [Formula: see text] (up to re-indexing and Crowell equivalence). This result follows from the fact that [Formula: see text] determines the [Formula: see text] quandles of all the sublinks of [Formula: see text], up to quandle isomorphisms.