Category Archives: earring group

The Baer-Specker Group

One of the infinite abelian groups that is important to infinite abelian group theory and which has shown up naturally in previous posts on infinitary fundamental groups is the Baer-Specker group, often just called the Specker group. This post isn’t … Continue reading

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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 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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