On special subgroups of fundamental group

Abstract

Suppose ? is a nonzero cardinal number, I is an ideal on arc connected Topological space X, and B?I(X) is the subgroup of ?1(X) (the first fundamental group of X) generated by homotopy classes of ?_I loops. The main aim of this text is to study B?I(X)s and compare them. Most interest is in ? ? {?,c} and I ? {Pfin(X), {?}}, where Pfin(X) denotes the collection of all finite subsets of X. We denote B?{?}(X) with B?(X). We prove the following statements: for arc connected topological spaces X and Y if B?(X) is isomorphic to B?(Y) for all infinite cardinal number ?, then ?1(X) is isomorphic to ?1(Y); there are arc connected topological spaces X and Y such that ?1(X) is isomorphic to ?1(Y) but B?(X) is not isomorphic to B?(Y); for arc connected topological space X we have B?(X) ? Bc(X) ? ?1(X); for Hawaiian earring X, the sets B?(X), Bc(X), and ?1(X) are pairwise distinct. So B?(X)s and B?I(X)s will help us to classify the class of all arc connected topological spaces with isomorphic fundamental groups.