The Topological Fundamental Group and Hoop Earring Spaces

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2009-10-19

arxiv.org/abs/0910.3685v2

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Algebraic Topology

9 pages This paper has been withdrawn by the author due to much more general results appearing in the paper "The topological f

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The topological fundamental group $\pi_{1}^{top}$ is a topological invariant that assigns to each space a quasi-topological group and is discrete on spaces which are well behaved locally. For a totally path-disconnected, Hausdorff, unbased space $X$, we compute the topological fundamental group of the "hoop earring" space of $X$, which is the reduced suspension of $X$ with disjoint basepoint. We do so by factorizing the quotient map $\Omega(\Sigma X_{+},x)\to \pi_{1}^{top}(\Sigma X_{+},x)$ through a free topological monoid with involution $M(X)$ such that the map $M(X)\shortrightarrow \pi_{1}^{top}(\Sigma X_{+},x)$ is also a quotient map. $\pi_{1}^{top}(\Sigma X_{+},x)$ is T1 and an embedding $X\shortrightarrow \pi_{1}^{top}(\Sigma X_{+},x)$ illustrates that $\pi_{1}^{top}(\Sigma X_{+},x)$ is not a topological group when $X$ is not regular. These hoop earring spaces provide a simple class of counterexamples to the claim that $\pi_{1}^{top}$ is a functor to the category of topological groups.

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