Dense products in fundamental groupoids
Algebraic Topology
2020-04-14 v1
Abstract
Infinitary operations, such as products indexed by countably infinite linear orders, arise naturally in the context of fundamental groups and groupoids. Despite the fact that the usual binary operation of the fundamental group determines the operation of the fundamental groupoid, we show that, for a locally path-connected metric space, the well-definedness of countable dense products in the fundamental group need not imply the well-definedness of countable dense products in the fundamental groupoid. Additionally, we show the fundamental groupoid has well-defined dense products if and only if admits a generalized universal covering space.
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@article{arxiv.1909.06908,
title = {Dense products in fundamental groupoids},
author = {Jeremy Brazas},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.06908},
year = {2020}
}