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In their study of fundamental groups of one-dimensional path-connected compact metric spaces, Cannon and Conner have asked: Is there a tree-like object that might be considered the topological Cayley graph? We answer this question in the positive and provide a combinatorial description of such an object.
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Fischer, H., Zastrow, A. Combinatorial \({\mathbb{R}}\)-trees as generalized Cayley graphs for fundamental groups of one-dimensional spaces. Geom Dedicata 163, 19–43 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10711-012-9734-0
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