TWIST REGIONS AND COEFFICIENTS STABILITY OF THE COLORED JONES POLYNOMIAL.

We prove that the coefficients of the colored Jones polynomial of alternating links stabilize under increasing the number of twists in the twist regions of the link diagram. This gives us an infinite family of -power series derived from the colored Jones polynomial parametrized by the color and the twist regions of the alternating link diagram.

Quandle colorings of knots and applications.

We present a set of 26 finite quandles that distinguish (up to reversal and mirror image) by number of colorings, all of the 2977 prime oriented knots with up to 12 crossings. We also show that 1058 of these knots can be distinguished from their mirror images by the number of colorings by quandles from a certain set of 23 finite quandles. We study the colorings of these 2977 knots by all of the 431 connected quandles of order at most 35 found by Vendramin.