EVERY COUNTABLE GROUP IS THE FUNDAMENTAL GROUP OF SOME COMPACT SUBSPACE OF
2015 ◽
Vol 92
(1)
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pp. 145-148
For every countable group $G$ we construct a compact path connected subspace $K$ of $\mathbb{R}^{4}$ such that ${\it\pi}_{1}(K)\cong G$. Our construction is much simpler than the one found recently by Virk.