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Fundamental Groupoid


The fundamental groupoid of a topological space X is the groupoid whose objects are the points of X and whose morphisms are homotopy classes, relative to endpoints, of paths in X. Composition is induced by path concatenation. The automorphism group of an object x is the fundamental group pi_1(X,x).


See also

Fundamental Group, Groupoid, Path

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References

Brown, R. Topology and Groupoids. Deganwy, Wales: BookSurge, 2006.

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Fundamental Groupoid." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/FundamentalGroupoid.html

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