Abstract
The fundamental quandle is a powerful invariant of knots and links, but it is difficult to describe in detail. It is often useful to look at quotients of the quandle, especially finite quotients. One natural quotient introduced by Joyce [1] is the n-quandle. Hoste and Shanahan [2] gave a complete list of the knots and links which have finite n-quandles for some n. We introduce a generalization of n-quandles, denoted N-quandles (for a quandle with k algebraic components, N is a k-tuple of positive integers). We conjecture a classification of the links with finite N-quandles for some N, and we prove one direction of the classification.
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