Seifert-Van Kampen theorem
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Statement
Let be a topological space and let be an open cover of .
Let be the set of all finite non-empty intersections of members of : .
Regard as a category whose objects are the elements of and in which there is a unique morphism whenever .
Let be the functor that sends each to its fundamental groupoid and each inclusion to the induced morphism of groupoids.
Then the canonical morphism Failed to parse (unknown function "\colim"): {\displaystyle \colim_{V\in \mathcal{F}}\Pi_1(V)\to \Pi_1(X)} is an isomorphism of groupoids.