Abstract
A Seifert–Van Kampen theorem describes the fundamental group of a space in terms of the fundamental groups of the constituents of a covering and the configuration of connected components of the covering. Here we provide the combinatorial part of such a theorem for the most general sort of coverings. Thus a Seifert–Van Kampen theorem is reduced to a purely geometric statement of effective descent.
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