valued quandles and associated bialgebras

We study -valued quandles and -corack bialgebras. These structures are closely related to topological field theories in dimensions and , to the set-theoretic Yang–Baxter equation, and to the -valued groups, which have attracted considerable attention or researchers. We elaborate the basic methods of this theory, find an analogue of the so-called coset construction known in the theory of -valued groups, and construct -valued quandles using -multiquandles. In contrast to the case of -valued groups, this construction turns out to be quite rich in algebraic and topological applications. We study the properties of -corack bialgebras, which play a role similar to that of bialgebras in group theory.