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Thursday, June 11, 2009

A Pi Groupoid

Recall that the cardinality of a groupoid involves the inverse of the cardinalities of groups. At PI, Jeff Morton told me about a very nice example involving, for instance, the cyclic groups Cn×Cn, which each have cardinality n2. That is, we can have a cardinality π2, because

π2=6k1k2.

Recall that this infinite sum is the number ζ(2) for the Riemann zeta function, first evaluated by Euler in 1735. Since e is also a groupoid cardinality, namely for the groupoid of finite sets and bijections, it seems that transcendentals naturally appear in the context of infinite groupoids.

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