Van Kampen's theorem for locally sectionable maps

Ronald Brown, George Janelidze, and George Peschke

We generalize the Van Kampen theorem for unions of non-connected spaces, due to R. Brown and A. R. Salleh, to the context where families of subspaces of the base space B are replaced with a `large' space E equipped with a locally sectionable continuous map p: E -> B.

Keywords: Van Kampen Theorem, fundamental groupoid, locally sectionable map

2020 MSC: 20L05, 55Q05, 55R99

Theory and Applications of Categories, Vol. 36, 2021, No. 2, pp 48-64.

Published 2021-03-01.

http://www.tac.mta.ca/tac/volumes/36/2/36-02.pdf

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