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fundamental groups of complements to countable subsets of the plane

This question is a follow-up of this MSE post and a comment by Henno Brandsma: Question 1. Let $S$ be the set of isomorphism classes of fundamental groups $\pi_1(E^2 - C)$, where $C$ ranges over all ...
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Proving the impossibility of an embedding of categories

A number of topological invariants take the form of functors $\mathscr{T}\to\mathscr{G}$, where $\mathscr{T}$ is the category of all topological spaces and continuous functions, and $\mathscr{G}$ is ...
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