Enumeration of racks and quandles up to isomorphism

Petr Vojtěchovský, Seung Yeop Yang

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Abstract

Racks and quandles are prominent set-theoretical solutions of the Yang-Baxter equation. We enumerate racks and quandles of orders n ≤ 13 up to isomorphism, improving upon the previously known results for n ≤ 8 and n ≤ 9, respectively. The enumeration is based on the classification of subgroups of small symmetric groups up to conjugation, on a representation of racks and quandles in symmetric groups due to Joyce and Blackburn, and on a number of theoretical and computational observations concerning the representation. We explicitly find representatives of isomorphism types of racks of order ≤ 11 and quandles of order ≤ 12. For the remaining orders we merely count the isomorphism types, relying in part on the enumeration of 2-reductive racks and 2-reductive quandles due to Jedlička, Pilitowska, Stanovský, and Zamojska-Dzienio.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2523-2540
Number of pages18
JournalMathematics of Computation
Volume88
Issue number319
DOIs
StatePublished - 2019

Keywords

  • 2-reductive rack
  • Enumeration
  • Isomorphism search
  • Medial rack
  • Oriented knot
  • Quandle
  • Rack
  • Subgroups of symmetric group
  • Yang-Baxter equation

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