English

Every countable group is the fundamental group of some compact subspace of R^4

Geometric Topology 2015-07-15 v2

Abstract

For every countable group G we construct a compact path connected subspace K of R^4 whose fundamental group is isomorphic to G. Our construction is much simpler than the one found recently by Virk.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.1411.2546,
  title  = {Every countable group is the fundamental group of some compact subspace of R^4},
  author = {Adam J. Przezdziecki},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1411.2546},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

4 pages; figure on page 1 corrected