Category Archives: General topology

Topologized Fundamental Groups: The Quotient Topology Part 3 (Why isn’t it always a topological group?)

In Part 1, I mentioned that one of the surprising things about the natural quotient topology on the fundamental group is that the resulting group with topology often fails to be a topological group. In fact, I’d say it’s usually … Continue reading

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Topologized Fundamental Groups: The Quotient Topology Part 1

Next up for topologies on the fundamental group is what I’d consider the most “natural” one. It’s almost certainly the topology you’d most often get if you asked random topologists on the street to construct one for you. This is … 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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