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 , which each have cardinality . That is, we can have a cardinality , because
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Recall that this infinite sum is the number for the Riemann zeta function, first evaluated by Euler in 1735. Since 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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Recall that this infinite sum is the number for the Riemann zeta function, first evaluated by Euler in 1735. Since 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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