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Computing the fundamental group of a higher-rank graph

Dynamical Systems 2020-09-10 v3 Combinatorics Operator Algebras

Abstract

We compute a presentation of the fundamental group of a higher-rank graph using a coloured graph description of higher-rank graphs developed by the third author. We compute the fundamental groups of several examples from the literature. Our results fit naturally into the suite of known geometrical results about kk-graphs when we show that the abelianisation of fundamental group is the homology group. We end with a calculation which gives a non-standard presentation of the fundamental group of the Klein bottle to the one normally found in the literature.

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@article{arxiv.1310.7651,
  title  = {Computing the fundamental group of a higher-rank graph},
  author = {Sooran Kang and David Pask and Samuel B. G. Webster},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1310.7651},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

Dynamical content from 1310.7651 removed. Content on fundamental group revised, and improved with new examples and error in example at end of recent submission

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