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Radial normalization retracts the punctured disk, but it cannot extend to the disk

Example

Let D2=B2(0,1) and define

ρ:D2{0}S1,ρ(x)=xx2.

This map retracts the punctured disk onto the unit circle, but it has no continuous extension to all of D2.

Facts & Assumptions

Given: The punctured closed disk D2{0} and radial normalization ρ.

[L1]

On R2{0}, radial normalization is a retraction onto S1 and is part of a deformation retraction (For n1, radial normalisation is a deformation retraction of Rn{0} onto Sn1).

[L2]

There is no continuous retraction D2S1 (There is no retraction of the closed disk onto the unit circle).

[F1]

The closed unit disk and unit circle are B2(0,1) and S2(0,1) (Euclidean spheres and closed balls as subspaces of Rn).

Verification

technique · direct
1.1

Restricting the retraction in [L1] to D2{0} gives a continuous map into S1, and every xS1 satisfies ρ(x)=x. Thus ρ retracts the punctured disk onto the unit circle.

givenF1L1
2.1

If a continuous extension ρˉ:D2S1 existed, it would still satisfy ρˉ(x)=x on S1, so it would be a retraction, contrary to [L2].

step 1.1L2
3.1

The failure at the missing point is also visible directly: for every 0<t1, ρ(t,0)=(1,0) while ρ(t,0)=(1,0). The two radial approaches to 0 therefore have different constant images, so ρ has no limit at 0.

step 1.1algebra

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