``Not just an idle game: the story of higher-dimensional versions of the Poincaré fundamental group

DOI10.1007/S00283-021-10110-9zbMATH Open1495.55001arXiv2103.12566OpenAlexW3197259815MaRDI QIDQ2154136FDOQ2154136

Yanyan Li

Publication date: 14 July 2022

Published in: The Mathematical Intelligencer (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The title of this article is partially taken from writings of A. Einstein. In the 1932 ICM at Z"urich, when E. vCech gave a seminar on higher homotopy groups of a pointed space and proved they were abelian for n > 1. On these grounds, H. Hopf and P.S. Aleksandrov persuaded ^Cech to withdraw his paper, so that only a small paragraph appeared in the Proceedings. This article reviews the eventual construction by the author and P.J. Higgins, of reasonably nonabelian higher dimensional versions of the fundamental group, using groupoids and many base points, and stimulated by long term work of J.H.C. Whitehead on crossed modules.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.12566

zbMATH Keywords

fundamental groupshomotopy groupshigher groupoidsICM Zürich 1932

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus (57M05) History of algebraic topology (55-03) Homotopy groups, general; sets of homotopy classes (55Q05)

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