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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 XX with a scattered algebraic 11-wild set aw(X)\mathbf{aw}(X), then all transfinite fundamental groupoid operations are also well-defined.

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@article{arxiv.2001.06733,
  title  = {Transfinite product reduction in fundamental groupoids},
  author = {Jeremy Brazas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2001.06733},
  year   = {2025}
}

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17 pages, 2 figures

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