Category Archives: Fundamental group

Celebrating the Career and Contributions of Katsuya Eda: Master of the Earring Group

Last week, I had the pleasure of speaking at the Arches Topology Conference in Moab, Utah. The conference was in honor of the career and contributions of Katsuya Eda, who retired not too long ago. K. Eda considers himself a … Continue reading

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Homotopically Hausdorff Spaces (Part II)

In my post homotopically Hausdorff spaces (Part I), I wrote about the property which describes the existence of loops that can be deformed into arbitrarily small neighborhoods but which are not actually null-homotopic, i.e. can’t be deformed all the way back … Continue reading

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Homotopically Hausdorff Spaces (Part I)

In previous posts, I wrote about the harmonic archipelago  (see also here and here): as well as the Griffiths Twin Cone . One special feature of these 2-dimensional spaces is that any loop either of these spaces can be deformed to lie … Continue reading

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