Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
4597064 Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra 2009 14 Pages PDF
Abstract

We solve the conjecture by R. Fenn, C. Rourke and B. Sanderson that the rack homology of dihedral quandles satisfies H3R(Rp)=Z⊕Zp for pp odd prime [T. Ohtsuki, Problems on invariants of knots and 3-manifolds, Geom. Topol. Monogr. 4 (2002) 377-572, Conjecture 5.12]. We also show that HnR(Rp) contains ZpZp for n≥3n≥3. Furthermore, we show that the torsion of HnR(R3) is annihilated by 3. We also prove that the quandle homology H4Q(Rp) contains ZpZp for pp odd prime. We conjecture that for n>1n>1 quandle homology satisfies: HnQ(Rp)=Zpfn, where fnfn are “delayed” Fibonacci numbers, that is, fn=fn−1+fn−3fn=fn−1+fn−3 and f(1)=f(2)=0,f(3)=1f(1)=f(2)=0,f(3)=1. Our paper is the first step in approaching this conjecture.

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