The Geometric Theory of the Fundamental Germ
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The fundamental germ is a generalization of π1, first defined for laminations which arise through group actions [4]. In this paper, the fundamental germ is extended to any lamination having a dense leaf admitting a smooth structure. In addition, an amplification of the fundamental germ called the mother germ is constructed, which is, unlike the fundamental germ, a topological invariant. The fundamental germs of the antenna lamination and the PSL(2,ℤ) lamination are calculated, laminations for which the definition in [4] was not available. The mother germ is used to give a new proof of a Nielsen theorem for the algebraic universal cover of a closed surface of hyperbolic type.
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