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arxiv: 1312.4750 · v2 · submitted 2013-12-17 · 🧮 math.GR

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Big Free Groups are Almost Free

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It is shown that the big free group (the set of countably-long words over a countable alphabet) is almost free, in the sense that any function from the alphabet to a compact topological group factors through a homomorphism. This statement is in fact a simple corollary of the more general result proven below on the extendability of homomorphisms from subgroups (of a certain kind) of the big free group to a compact topological group.

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