On categories of faithful quandles with surjective or injective quandle homomorphisms

Abstract

E. Bunch, P. Lofgren, A. Rapp and D. N. Yetter [J. Knot theory Ramifications (2010)] pointed out that by considering inner automorphism groups of quandles, one have a functor from the category of quandles with surjective homomorphisms to that of groups with surjective homomorphisms. In this paper, we focus on faithful quandles. As main results, we give category equivalence between the category of faithful quandles with surjective quandle homomorphisms and that of pairs of groups and their generators with suitable group homomorphisms. We are also interested in injective quandle homomorphisms. By defining suitable morphisms among pairs of groups and their generators, we obtain a category which is equivalent to the category of faithful quandles with injective quandle homomorphisms.