Frobenius Alexander quandles, knot colorings, and isogeny classes of abelian varieties over finite fields

WonTae Hwang

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Frobenius Alexander quandles, knot colorings, and isogeny classes of abelian varieties over finite fields

WonTae Hwang

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We introduce the notion of Frobenius Alexander quandles associated with abelian varieties over finite fields, and study them from both knot-theoretic and arithmetic viewpoints. We determine exactly for which rational primes a knot admits a nonconstant coloring by these quandles, in terms of the resultant of its Alexander polynomial and the Frobenius characteristic polynomial of the abelian variety. This leads to the notion of persistent colorability and its characterization, as well as applications to fibered knots and knots of small genus. We also prove a rigidity result showing that the isomorphism class of a Frobenius Alexander quandle determines the similarity class of the Frobenius endomorphism on the corresponding torsion subgroup. As a consequence, one sufficiently large Frobenius Alexander quandle determines the characteristic polynomial of the Frobenius endomorphism, and hence, determines the isogeny class of the abelian variety over the given finite base field.

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WonTae Hwang. 2026-09-02. Frobenius Alexander quandles, knot colorings, and isogeny classes of abelian varieties over finite fields. https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.02278

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