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Knots in Washington XX; 60th birthday of Louis H. Kauffman
February 11-13, 2005
George Washington University
Washington, DC, USA

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Sofia Lambropoulou (NTUA and Univ. de Caen), Jozef H. Przytycki (GWU), Yongwu Rong (GWU)

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Fox colorings for the number of Reidemeister moves and colored chirality
by
J. Scott Carter and Masahico Saito
U. South Alabama, U. South Florida
Coauthors: Mohamed Elhamdadi, Shin Satoh

In this talk, first, we illustrate how Fox colorings can be used to study the minimal number of Reidemeister type III moves. Functions motivated from quandle cohomology theory are used to give lower bounds for the type III moves. Second, we consider chirality of knots with Fox colorings that are also mirror images of the given colorings. We construct knots with colored chirality, and use quandle cocycle invariants as obstructions.

Date received: January 11, 2005

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