Inner Automorphisms of an Abelian Extension of a Quandle.

The inner automorphism groups of quandles are related to the classification problem of quandles. The inner automorphism group of a quandle is generated by inner automorphisms which are presented by columns in the operation table of the quandle. In this paper, we describe inner automorphisms of an abelian extension of a quandle by expressing columns of the operation table of the extended quandle as columns of the operation table of the original quandle. Such a description will be helpful in studying inner automorphism groups of abelian extensions of quandles. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]