Seminario del 2019

2019
28 maggio
A rack is a set R together with a binary operation ▷ such that • For each x, y, z ∈ R, x ▷ (y ▷ z) = (x ▷ y) ▷ (x ▷ z), and • for each x, y ∈ R, there exists a unique element z ∈ R with x ▷ z = y. If we have the extra condition x ▷ x = x for each x ∈ R, then R is called a quandle. For an example, a group G together with the operation x ▷ y = xyx−1 is a quandle. The study of racks and quandles dates back to 1943 when Takasaki used a certain algebraic structure to study reflections in finite geometries [?]. Since then, Racks and quandles have been used in some branches of mathematics such as knot theory for encoding knot diagrams. In 2015, I. Heckenberger et al. started the study of racks in a combined perspective of combinatorics and group theory. Indeed, they considered the lattice of subracks of a rack and obtained some interesting results [?]. Moreover, they posed some important questions in the last section of their paper. Two of these questions have been solved in [?] and [?]. Actually, it has been shown that the lattice of subracks of a rack is atomic, and this lattice for finite racks is complemented but there are some infinite racks whose lattices are not complemented.

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