The Seifert–Van Kampen theorem is a fundamental result in algebraic topology that provides a method for computing the fundamental group of a topological space that can be decomposed into simpler pieces. Specifically, it relates the fundamental group of a space to the fundamental groups of its subspaces when certain conditions are satisfied.
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For a suitably path-connected open cover , the fundamental group of is the pushout of the homomorphisms from to and .