{"title":"Singular chains and the fundamental group","authors":"M. Rivera, M. Zeinalian","doi":"10.4064/fm734-6-2020","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"We show that the natural algebraic structure of the singular chains on a path connected topological space determines the fundamental group functorially. Moreover, we describe a notion of weak equivalence for the relevant algebraic structure under which the data of the fundamental group is preserved.","PeriodicalId":8433,"journal":{"name":"arXiv: Algebraic Topology","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2018-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"4","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"arXiv: Algebraic Topology","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4064/fm734-6-2020","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
We show that the natural algebraic structure of the singular chains on a path connected topological space determines the fundamental group functorially. Moreover, we describe a notion of weak equivalence for the relevant algebraic structure under which the data of the fundamental group is preserved.