Realizations of countable groups as fundamental groups of compacta

DOI10.1007/S00009-013-0274-0zbMATH Open1279.55009arXiv0810.3412OpenAlexW2153255278MaRDI QIDQ358267FDOQ358267

Authors: Ziga Virk 

Publication date: 16 August 2013

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

Abstract: It is an open question (Pawlikowski) whether every finitely generated group can be realized as a fundamental group of a compact metric space. In this paper we prove that any countable group can be realized as the fundamental group of a compact subspace of four dimensional Euclidean space. According to theorems of Shelah (see also Pawlikowski) such space can not be locally path connected if the group is not finitely generated. This constructions complements realization of groups in the context of compact Hausdorff spaces, that was studied by Keesling and Rudyak, and Przezdziecki .

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

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zbMATH Keywords

fundamental groupPeano continuumcompactacountable groupEilenberg-MacLane spacehomotopical closenessthe realization theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus (57M05) Topological methods in group theory (57M07) Compact (locally compact) metric spaces (54E45) Eilenberg-Mac Lane spaces (55P20) Homotopy groups, general; sets of homotopy classes (55Q05)

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