Realizations of countable groups as fundamental groups of compacta

DOI10.1007/s00009-013-0274-0zbMath1279.55009arXiv0810.3412MaRDI QIDQ358267

Žiga Virk

Publication date: 16 August 2013

Published in: Mediterranean Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0810.3412

zbMATH Keywords

fundamental group; Eilenberg-MacLane space; Peano continuum; compacta; countable group; homotopical closeness; the realization theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

55Q05: Homotopy groups, general; sets of homotopy classes

57M07: Topological methods in group theory

54E45: Compact (locally compact) metric spaces

57M05: Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus

55P20: Eilenberg-Mac Lane spaces

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