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The square with opposite edges identified is homeomorphic to the product (R/Z)×(R/Z)

Example

Let T:=R/Z with its quotient topology and open quotient map q (R/Z: the quotient map is open, and the quotient is homeomorphic to [0,1] with its endpoints identified, The quotient topology of a surjection, quotient maps, saturated sets, and the quotient of a space by an equivalence relation with its canonical projection), and give T×T the product topology (The product set ∏i∈IXi of functions choosing a point in each factor, the projections, the box topology, and the product topology as the initial topology of the projections; the empty product is a one-point space). Let

S  :=  [0,1]×[0,1]

be the unit square, the product of two copies of the subspace [0,1] of R, which by claim 1 of Products commute with subspaces; for infinite nonempty families, the closure identity ∏Ai‾=∏Ai‾ uses the Axiom of Choice is also the subspace [0,1]2 of R2 (For n≥1 the product topology on n copies of the usual topology of R is the metric topology of d∞ on Rn, and hence also of d1 and d2, so Rn as a product and Rn as a metric space are one space, Subspace topology: the traces of the open sets, its closed sets and its bases, the continuity of the inclusion, and the characteristic property of a map into a subspace). Let ∼ be the relation on S given by

(s,t)∼(s′,t′):⟺s−s′∈Z and t−t′∈Z,

which glues each edge of the square to the opposite edge: it identifies (0,t) with (1,t) and (s,0) with (s,1), and identifies the four corners with one another. Let S/ ⁣∼ carry the quotient topology with projection P. Then:

  1. Q:=q×q:R2→T×T, Q(x,y)=(q(x),q(y)), is an open quotient map (A continuous open surjection, a continuous closed surjection, and a continuous surjection admitting a continuous section are all quotient maps): it is continuous by A map into a product is continuous iff each of its components is; the projections are continuous and open; and each projection is surjective when every factor is nonempty, which for an infinite index set uses the Axiom of Choice, surjective, and open because Q[U×V]=q[U]×q[V] for open U,V⊆R.
  2. S/ ⁣∼ and T×T are homeomorphic (Homeomorphism, open map, closed map, embedding, and what it means for a property to be topological). The homeomorphism is induced by the restriction Q↾S, and its inverse by the coordinatewise fractional part (Integer part: for every real x there is exactly one integer m with m≤x<m+1).

So the square with opposite edges identified is the torus T×T. The torus is not identified here with any subset of R3, and T is not identified with a circle in R2: both identifications need the trigonometric functions, which are not available at this point in the reading order (R/Z: the quotient map is open, and the quotient is homeomorphic to [0,1] with its endpoints identified).

Facts & Assumptions

Given: T=R/Z with projection q; T×T with the product topology; R2 with the product topology; the square S=[0,1]×[0,1]; the relation ∼ and the quotient S/ ⁣∼ with projection P; the maps Q(x,y)=(q(x),q(y)), E:=Q↾S, and F:R2→S/ ⁣∼, F(x,y):=P(x−⌊x⌋, y−⌊y⌋).

[A2]

For every real x there is exactly one integer ⌊x⌋ with ⌊x⌋≤x<⌊x⌋+1, and ⌊x+m⌋=⌊x⌋+m for every integer m (Integer part: for every real x there is exactly one integer m with m≤x<m+1).

[A3]

P is a surjective quotient map, and W is open in S/ ⁣∼ exactly when P−1[W] is open in S (The quotient topology of a surjection, quotient maps, saturated sets, and the quotient of a space by an equivalence relation with its canonical projection).

Verification

technique · direct
1.1

Q is continuous, its components q∘π0 and q∘π1 being composites of continuous maps, and surjective, since every (a,b)∈T×T is (q(u),q(v)) for some u,v by surjectivity of q.

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1.2

For U,V⊆R: Q[U×V]=q[U]×q[V]. Indeed Q(u,v)=(q(u),q(v)) gives the inclusion ⊆, and conversely (q(u),q(v)) with u∈U, v∈V is Q(u,v).

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1.3

Q(x,y)=Q(x′,y′) exactly when x−x′∈Z and y−y′∈Z, by [A1] applied in each coordinate.

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1.4

E=Q↾S is continuous by [L3], and surjective: given (a,b)∈T×T write a=q(u), b=q(v); then u−⌊u⌋ and v−⌊v⌋ lie in [0,1) by [A2] and E(u−⌊u⌋, v−⌊v⌋)=(a,b) by [A1].

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1.5

Fix integers m,n and put R:=[m−1, m+1]×[n−1, n+1]. For α,β∈{0,1} let Rαβ:=[m−1+α, m+α]×[n−1+β, n+β] and define gαβ:Rαβ→S/ ⁣∼ by gαβ(x,y):=P(x−(m−1+α), y−(n−1+β)). Each gαβ is continuous, being P composed with a translation of each coordinate into [0,1], which is continuous by [L2], [L3] and [L5].

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2.1

For (s,t),(s′,t′)∈S: E(s,t)=E(s′,t′) exactly when (s,t)∼(s′,t′), by step 1.3 and the definition of ∼. So the fibres of E are exactly the classes of ∼.

step 1.3
2.2

F is constant on the fibres of Q: if Q(x,y)=Q(x′,y′) then x′=x+m and y′=y+n for integers m,n by step 1.3, and then x′−⌊x′⌋=x−⌊x⌋ and y′−⌊y′⌋=y−⌊y⌋ by [A2].

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2.3

Q is an open map: by [L1] and [L2] the boxes U×V with U,V open in R form a basis of R2, their images are the boxes q[U]×q[V] by step 1.2, which are open in T×T by [A1] and [L1], and the image of a union is the union of the images. With step 1.1 and [L4] this makes Q an open quotient map, which is claim 1.

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2.4

The four maps of step 1.5 agree on the overlaps of the Rαβ, which are contained in the lines x=m and y=n. On x=m the two candidate values differ only in that the first coordinate of the argument of P is 1 in one and 0 in the other, and (1,u)∼(0,u); on y=n the same holds in the second coordinate, and at (m,n) all four values are P of the four corners of S, which are all ∼-equivalent.

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3.1

By steps 1.5 and 2.4 and the finite closed cover {Rαβ} of R, [L3] gives a continuous g:R→S/ ⁣∼ restricting to each gαβ; and g=F on R, since for x∈[m−1,m) one has ⌊x⌋=m−1, for x∈[m,m+1) one has ⌊x⌋=m, and at x=m+1 the value P(…, 0,… ) agrees with P(…,1,… ) by ∼, the same three cases applying to y.

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4.1

F is continuous: the open sets (m−1,m+1)×(n−1,n+1), m,n∈Z, cover R2 by [L1] and [L2], and on each of them F is the restriction of the continuous g of step 3.1, hence continuous by [L3]; the open cover clause of [L3] then gives continuity of F.

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5.1

By step 2.1 and [L4] applied to the quotient map P and the continuous map E of step 1.4, there is exactly one continuous Eˉ:S/ ⁣∼ →T×T with Eˉ∘P=E; by step 2.2 and [L4] applied to the quotient map Q of step 2.3 and the continuous F of step 4.1, there is exactly one continuous Fˉ:T×T→S/ ⁣∼ with Fˉ∘Q=F.

step 1.4step 2.1step 2.2step 2.3step 4.1A3L4
6.1

Fˉ∘Eˉ=id: for (s,t)∈S one has Fˉ(Eˉ(P(s,t)))=Fˉ(Q(s,t))=F(s,t)=P(s−⌊s⌋, t−⌊t⌋), which equals P(s,t) in every case, since ⌊u⌋=0 for u∈[0,1) and 1−⌊1⌋=0 with (0,⋅)∼(1,⋅) and (⋅,0)∼(⋅,1); and P is surjective.

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6.2

Eˉ∘Fˉ=id: for (x,y)∈R2 one has Eˉ(Fˉ(Q(x,y)))=Eˉ(F(x,y))=E(x−⌊x⌋, y−⌊y⌋)=Q(x−⌊x⌋, y−⌊y⌋)=Q(x,y) by [A1] and [A2]; and Q is surjective by step 1.1.

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7.1

By steps 6.1 and 6.2 the continuous maps Eˉ and Fˉ are mutually inverse, so Eˉ is a homeomorphism, which is claim 2; with step 2.3 both claims are proved.

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Remarks

  • Why the two-dimensional pasting is needed at all. A shorter route would be to say that q×q is a quotient map because each factor is, but "a product of quotient maps is a quotient map" is false in general and is not available here (What the theory of these constructions still owes at this point in the reading order: preservation of quotient maps under products, separation beyond Hausdorff, and the invariants that tell the glued spaces apart). What rescues the argument is that q is open, so Q is open outright by step 2.3, and openness does pass to products.

  • The corners are where the gluing is genuinely four-fold. The relation identifies (0,0), (1,0), (0,1) and (1,1) with one another, so the torus has a single point coming from the four corners of the square. Step 2.4 is exactly the check that the four local descriptions of F agree there.

  • The same technique with only one pair of edges glued gives the cylinder, and with one pair glued after a flip gives the Mobius band; both are worked in the next item, which reuses the argument of steps 2.2 to 4.1 in one variable.

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