Category Archives: Algebraic Topology

The Griffiths twin cone and the harmonic archipelago have isomorphic fundamental group (Part 1)

This is a guest post by Sam Corson, who is a Heibronn Fellow at the University of Bristol. This first post will provide background on the infinite word combinatorics which are used in the description of the fundamental group of … Continue reading

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Homotopically Reduced Paths (Part III)

In this last post about reduced paths, I’m going to work through the details of one of the most useful results in wild topology. Writing this post helped me work out my own way of proving this result and hopefully … Continue reading

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Homotopically Reduced Paths (Part II)

Understanding this post requires reading Part I where I explain what reduced paths are and how we might go about proving they exist. In this second part, I’ll go into detail about how to use Zorn’s lemma to identifying a … Continue reading

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