Homotopy Covers of Graphs
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Graphs and abstract algebra (groups, rings, fields, etc.) (05C25) Enumeration in graph theory (05C30) Paths and cycles (05C38) Isomorphism problems in graph theory (reconstruction conjecture, etc.) and homomorphisms (subgraph embedding, etc.) (05C60) Group actions on combinatorial structures (05E18) Groupoids (i.e. small categories in which all morphisms are isomorphisms) (20L05)
Abstract: We develop conditions for a graph cover to be a -homotopy cover, satisfying a -homotopy lifting property analogous to the homotopy lifting property of covers of topological spaces. We define a universal homotopy cover for graphs and show that homotopy covers as quotients of this universal cover by subgroups of the deck transformation group, which we identify with the fundamental groupoid defined in cite{CS2}. We then explicitly compute the fundamental groups of cycle, wheel, complete and certain Kneser graphs, and use this to enumerate all connected homotopy covers of these graphs.
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