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- From: asimov@wk223.nas.nasa.gov (Daniel A. Asimov)
- Subject: Re: A Question About Fundamental Group
- References: <amirishs.722059588@acf9> <1992Nov19.002727.2848@galois.mit.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 18:37:30 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov19.002727.2848@galois.mit.edu>, jbaez@riesz.mit.edu (John C. Baez) writes:
- |> In article <amirishs.722059588@acf9> amirishs@acf9.nyu.edu (shaahin amiri sharifi) writes:
- |> >Consider a bunch of infinitely many (countable) circles with a
- |> >point in common. The radii of these circles make a sequence like
- |> >{1/n}. What is the fundamental group of this space? Any comments
- |> >or referenc would be so helpful!
- |>
- |> This space is called the Hawaiian earring space. I don't recall any
- |> references to it - perhaps in the book Counterexamples in Topology?
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- In his Lectures on Algebraic Topology (Benjamin), Marvin Greenberg cites
- this space as an example of a space which fails to be semi-locally simply
- connected, and consequently it is a space which has no universal covering
- space.
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- (Definition: A space X is semi-locally simply connected if for any x in X,
- there is a neighborhood U of x such that any loop in U based at x can be
- shrunk in X to the point x.) Greenberg shows that this is a necessary condition
- for a space to possess a universal covering space.
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