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Galois groups vs. fundamental groups

In a recent blog post Terry Tao mentions in passing that: "Class groups...are arithmetic analogues of the (abelianised) fundamental groups in topology, with Galois groups serving as the analogue ...
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Representation theory of higher homotopy groups

I've seen some works on the representation of fundamental groups, which are (at least for me) quite important topic in mathematics. For example, Riemann-Hilbert correspondence relates representation ...
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Is $\operatorname{Aut}(\mathcal{M})$ a fundamental group in Grothendieck's sense?

This question is a follow-up to Are there infinitely many L-rigs? and to Is an automorphic form of $\operatorname{GL}_{n}(\mathbb{A}_{\mathbb{Q}})$ determined by its L-function?. I copy paste a deepl ...
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Is there a presentation to the kernel of the prime-to-$p$ fundamental short exact sequence of curves over finite fields?

Let $X$ be $\mathbb{P}^1_{\mathbb{F}_q}\smallsetminus \{a_1,...,a_r\}$, where $a_1,...,a_r$ are some $\mathbb{F}_q$-rational points. Let $\bar X :=X_{\bar{\mathbb{F}}_q}$. There is a short exact ...
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Are there any examples of hyperbolic curves over finite fields such that the action of frobenius on its prime-to-$p$ fundamental group is known?

Let $X$ smooth curve over a finite field $\mathbb{F}_q$ of type $(g,n)$ - that is, $X$ is an open subscheme of its genus $g$ compactification obtained by removing $n$ points. Any such curve ...
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Geometric fundamental group and algebraically closed residue field

my questions relates to the following talk of Tsuji: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2brDj26phP0 At around 10:30 of the video, Tsuji is interrupted by a man stating that his construction does not ...
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Motives from the fundamental group made nilpotent

I am reading the fascinating paper of Deligne on "le groupe fondamental de la droite projective moins trois points", and other stuffs related to anabelian geometry. This suggested the following ...
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