fundamental groups

A form of fundamental group — For a specified topological space, the group whose elements are homotopy classes of loops (images of some arbitrary closed interval whose endpoints are both mapped to a designated point) and whose group operation is concatenation.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of fundamental group
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