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Presentation complex for the symmetric group on three letters
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Geometry and topology
Algebraic topology
Fundamental group
Seifert-van Kampen theorem
Fundamental group after attaching a 2-cell
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Attach three 2-cells to
S
1
∨
S
1
along loops representing
a
2
,
b
3
, and
(
ab
)
2
. The resulting group is
⟨
a
,
b
∣
a
2
,
b
3
,
(
ab
)
2
⟩
≅
S
3
.
(16)
Indeed,
a
↦
(
12
)
and
b
↦
(
123
)
gives a surjection to
S
3
, while
aba
=
b
−
1
reduces every word to one of
b
i
or
a
b
i
, so the presented group has at most six elements.
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Fundamental group after attaching a 2-cell
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Fundamental group
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