Author Archives: Jeremy Brazas

Inverse limits of planar Peano continua are not always planar

Recently, I ran into a situation where I had an inverse sequence of *planar Peano continua. I wondered naively if the limit of such a sequence always had to be planar. It turns out the answer is no, even in … Continue reading

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The “tau topology” on the fundamental group

In the multipart series on topologies on fundamental groups, we’ve discussed the fundamental group with the quotient topology: . This is defined as having the quotient topology with respect to the map , that identifies homotopic loops. Here, is the … Continue reading

Posted in Category Theory, coreflection functor, Fundamental group, Quasitopological groups, quasitopological groups, quotient topology, reflection functor, topological fundamental group, Topological groups, Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Topological Group Reflections: turning a group with topology into a topological group, Part II

In Part I, we discussed the operation , which takes in a group equipped with a topology (that does not necessarily interact nicely with the operations of the group) and outputs a topological group. The underlying group of is the … Continue reading

Posted in Categorical Topology, Category Theory, General topology, quasitopological groups, quotient topology, reflection functor, Topological groups, Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , | 3 Comments