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Fundamental group of the digital circle

Pooja Singh

Faculty of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, Shri Ramswaroop Memorial University Lucknow, India

E-mail Address: poojasingh_07@rediffmail.com

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Dania Masood

Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

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https://doi.org/10.1142/S1793557118500821Cited by:0 (Source: Crossref)

Abstract

An analog of extended real line, $n$ $n$ -sphere and $n$ $n$ -disc in the setting of digital topology has been provided and the fundamental group of the digital circle has been computed which comes out to be the additive group $ℤ$ of integers.

Communicated by B. Diarra

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AMSC: 22E46, 53C35, 57S20

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