Secant-quandle: an invariant of braids and knots

Abstract

We construct a novel invariant of braids and knots, secant-quandle (SQ),with generic secants serving as generators and generic horizontal trisecants serving as relations, i.e., SQ = Γ< SM TM,EM >, where M is a braid or link.

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