English

The fundamental group functor as a Kan extension

Category Theory 2014-04-07 v2 Algebraic Topology

Abstract

We prove that the fundamental group functor from categorical Galois theory may be computed as a Kan extension.

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@article{arxiv.1307.0068,
  title  = {The fundamental group functor as a Kan extension},
  author = {Tomas Everaert and Julia Goedecke and Tim Van der Linden},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1307.0068},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

Final published version. 26 pages. Dedicated to Rene Guitart on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday

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