Identities of the Kauffman monoid K3
Yuzhu Chen, Xun Hu, Nikita V. Kitov, Yanfeng Luo, Mikhail Vladimirovich Volkov · Communications in Algebra · 2020
We give a transparent combinatorial characterization of the identities satisfied by the Kauffman monoid K3. Our characterization leads to a polynomial time algorithm to check whether a given identity holds in K3.