The idempotent classification conjecture for integral Dehn quandles

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Let g1g\geq 1, let Dg\mathcal{D}_g be the Dehn quandle of a closed orientable surface of genus gg, and let Z[Dg]\mathbb{Z}[\mathcal{D}_g] be its integral quandle algebra. An element is a convex linear combination of simple closed curves if it is a linear combination with nonnegative coefficients whose coefficients sum to 11. Idempotent classification conjecture. The idempotents of Z[Dg]\mathbb{Z}[\mathcal{D}_g] are precisely the convex linear combinations of pairwise disjoint simple closed curves.

The preceding result proves this description for idempotents of length three, while the conjecture asserts it for all idempotents and every genus. The question concerns the structure of idempotents in the integral algebra associated with the Dehn quandle.

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Pankaj Kapari, Deepanshi Saraf and Mahender Singh, “Dehn quandles of surfaces and their bounded cohomology”, arXiv:2602.17661 (2026).

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