1. Enveloping monoidal quandles
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Kamada, Seiichi and Matsumoto, Yukio
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MONODROMY groups , *GROUP theory , *PAPER , *MATHEMATICS - Abstract
A quandle is a set with a self-distributive binary operation satisfying a certain condition. Here we construct a monoid (a semi-group with the identity) associated with a quandle. This monoid has a structure of a quandle, which contains the original quandle as a sub-quandle. We call it the enveloping monoidal quandle. The purpose of this paper is to introduce the notion of the enveloping monoidal quandle, and to investigate it. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]
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- 2005
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