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Disingquandles and invariants of dichromatic singular links

Department of Mathematics, Graduate School of Natural Sciences, Pusan National University, Busan 46241, Republic of Korea

E-mail Address: ibrahimsheikh@pusan.ac.kr

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Mohamed Elhamdadi

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0906-1507

University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States

E-mail Address: emohamed@usf.edu

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Danish Ali

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4154-4701

Department of Mathematics, Dalian University of Technology, P. R. China

E-mail Address: danishali@mail.dlut.edu.cn

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Abstract

We introduce and investigate dichromatic singular links. We also construct disingquandles and use them to define counting invariants for unoriented dichromatic singular links. We provide some examples to show that these invariants distinguish some dichromatic singular links.

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AMSC: 57K10, 57K14

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