Tag Archives: fundamental group

The earring group is not free (Part I)

The main goal of this two-part post will be to study the homomorphisms out of the earring group. Click here to get to Part II. In particular, we’ll end up concluding that the set of homomorphisms to the additive group … Continue reading

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The Harmonic Archipelago

Another fascinating space that receives a lot of attention is the so-called harmonic archipelago which is the following subspace of . You can describe the construction like this: Start by drawing the usual earring space onto a solid disk in … Continue reading

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The fundamental group of the earring space

Here is one of my favorite spaces: The earring space, i.e. the “shrinking wedge of circles.” This space is the first step into the world of “wild” topological spaces. This post is meant to be an introduction into how one … Continue reading

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