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The topological Hawaiian earring group does not embed in the inverse limit of free groups

Paul Fabel

math.GNarXiv:math/0501482

Abstract

Endowed with natural topologies, the fundamental group of the Hawaiian earring continuously injects into the inverse limit of free groups. This note shows the injection fails to have a continuous inverse. Such a phenomenon was unexpected and appears to contradict results of another author.

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