Transfinite product reduction in fundamental groupoids

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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 X with a scattered algebraic 1-wild set mathbfaw(X), then all transfinite fundamental groupoid operations are also well-defined.


A {\em cut-set} is defined to be a compact nowhere dense subset \(A\) of \(\mathbb{R}\) and a {\em cut-map} in a topological space \(X\) to be a continuous function \(A \rightarrow X\) on a cut-set. For a path \(\alpha \colon [a, b] \rightarrow X\) and cut-set \(A\) with \([\min(A), \max(A)]=[a, b]\), the restriction \(\alpha\vert_A \colon A \rightarrow X\) is a cut-map and the pair \((\alpha, A)\) is called a {\em factorization} of \(\alpha\). A {\em reduction} of a factorization \((\alpha, A)\) is a factorization \((\alpha, B)\) such that \(B\subseteq A\). Infinite products, indexed by countably infinite linear orders are called {\em transfinite} when the index orders are permitted to contain a dense suborder and are called {\em scattered} otherwise. In this paper, the author proves several technical results related to combining of factors of transfinite products in fundamental groupoids.











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