rig

A GAP package for racks, quandles, Nichols algebras

Rig is a GAP package for computations related to racks, quandles, knots, virtual knots, Nichols algebras.

Download

Latest stable version here (tar.gz), or here (zip), version 1.

News

Now Rig contains all indecomposable quandles of size <48! Check out the sequence A181771.

Features

Racks and quandles

groups associated to finite racks and quandles
complete list of non-isomorphic indecomposable quandles of order < 48
rack and quandle homology
quandle colorings of knots
quandle 2-cocycle invariants of knots
Nelson’s polynomials invariants

Nichols algebras

derivations
dimensions and relations for gbnp package

Databases

indecomposable quandles of size <48
planar diagrams for knots of <13 crossings (from Livingstone’s website)
planar diagrams for virtual knots up to <6 crossings (from Green’s website)

Authors

L. Vendramin
M. Graña (retired)

Cite as

If you have used Rig in the preparation of a paper please cite it as:

L. Vendramin. Rig, a GAP package for racks, quandles and Nichols algebras. Available at https://github.com/gap-packages/rig/

Contributions

You are welcome to contribute with code, patches, ideas, testing, wiki, comments, documentation. See the wiki for the list of contributors. Special thanks go to: W. E. Clark, D. Holt, A. Hulpke, A. Lochmann, G. Royle, M. Saito, D. Stanovsky.

Usage

See the wiki to learn how to install the package.

To load the package:

gap> LoadPackage(“rig”); If you want to see some examples follow this link.

Examples

Here you will find many examples (constructions of racks and quandles, quandle 2-cocycles abelian extensions, quandle colorings and 2-cocyle invariants of knots, calculations related to Nichols algebras…

References

Here you can find a comprehensive list of references relevant to quandles and related topics (work in progress). Help me to improve this list!

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