Author Archives: Jeremy Brazas

Homomorphisms from the earring group to finite groups

One of the the surprising things about the earring group (the fundamental group of the earring space ) is that the group of homomorphisms to the additive group of integers is countable (see this post for details) even though is … Continue reading

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The Uncountability of the Harmonic Archipelago Group

In a previous post, we discussed the fundamental group of the harmonic archipelago in some detail. One item that I skipped earlier is the fact that this group is uncountable. In this post, we’ll see why is uncountable. We’ll use … Continue reading

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The Harmonic Archipelago Group is not Free

In recent posts, I’ve been writing about the behavior of fundamental groups of the most fundamental “wild” spaces. We did a decent amount of work in a two-part post to convince ourselves that the fundamental group of the earring space … Continue reading

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