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Radial normalization retracts the punctured disk, but it cannot extend to the disk
Example
Let and define
This map retracts the punctured disk onto the unit circle, but it has no continuous extension to all of .
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The punctured closed disk and radial normalization .
On , radial normalization is a retraction onto and is part of a deformation retraction (For , radial normalisation is a deformation retraction of onto ).
There is no continuous retraction (There is no retraction of the closed disk onto the unit circle).
The closed unit disk and unit circle are and (Euclidean spheres and closed balls as subspaces of ).
Verification
Restricting the retraction in [L1] to gives a continuous map into , and every satisfies . Thus retracts the punctured disk onto the unit circle.
If a continuous extension existed, it would still satisfy on , so it would be a retraction, contrary to [L2].
The failure at the missing point is also visible directly: for every , while . The two radial approaches to therefore have different constant images, so has no limit at .
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Sources
- Allen Hatcher, Algebraic Topology, proof of Theorem 1.9 (standard reference, not scraped)
- J. Peter May, A Concise Course in Algebraic Topology, Chapter 1, §6 (standard reference, not scraped)