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Change of basepoint isomorphism (u#​)

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Let u be a path from x0​ to x1​. Traversing paths from left to right gives an isomorphism
u#​:π1​(X,x0​)⟶π1​(X,x1​),[α]⟼[uˉ∗α∗u].
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Concatenation and cancellation of a path with its reverse prove the homomorphism property and show that uˉ supplies its inverse. A different connecting path changes this isomorphism by an inner automorphism, so it need not be canonical.

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