Transfinite product reduction in fundamental groupoids
Algebraic Topology
2025-01-27 v2 General Topology
Abstract
Infinite products, indexed by countably infinite linear orders, arise naturally in the context of fundamental groupoids. Such products are called "transfinite" if the index orders are permitted to contain a dense suborder and are called "scattered" otherwise. In this paper, we prove several technical lemmas related to the reduction (i.e. combining of factors) of transfinite products in fundamental groupoids. Applying these results, we show that if the transfinite fundamental group operations are well-defined in a space with a scattered algebraic -wild set , then all transfinite fundamental groupoid operations are also well-defined.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2001.06733,
title = {Transfinite product reduction in fundamental groupoids},
author = {Jeremy Brazas},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2001.06733},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
17 pages, 2 figures