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The square with opposite edges identified is homeomorphic to the product
Example
Let with its quotient topology and open quotient map (: the quotient map is open, and the quotient is homeomorphic to 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 the product topology (The product set 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
be the unit square, the product of two copies of the subspace of , which by claim 1 of Products commute with subspaces; for infinite nonempty families, the closure identity uses the Axiom of Choice is also the subspace of (For the product topology on copies of the usual topology of is the metric topology of on , and hence also of and , so as a product and 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 given by
which glues each edge of the square to the opposite edge: it identifies with and with , and identifies the four corners with one another. Let carry the quotient topology with projection . Then:
- , , 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 for open .
- and 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 , and its inverse by the coordinatewise fractional part (Integer part: for every real there is exactly one integer with ).
So the square with opposite edges identified is the torus . The torus is not identified here with any subset of , and is not identified with a circle in : both identifications need the trigonometric functions, which are not available at this point in the reading order (: the quotient map is open, and the quotient is homeomorphic to with its endpoints identified).
Facts & Assumptions
Given: with projection ; with the product topology; with the product topology; the square ; the relation and the quotient with projection ; the maps , , and , .
is a surjective open quotient map, is open in exactly when is open in , and exactly when (: the quotient map is open, and the quotient is homeomorphic to 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, The integers as equivalence classes of pairs of naturals).
For every real there is exactly one integer with , and for every integer (Integer part: for every real there is exactly one integer with ).
is a surjective quotient map, and is open in exactly when is open in (The quotient topology of a surjection, quotient maps, saturated sets, and the quotient of a space by an equivalence relation with its canonical projection).
A map into a binary product is continuous exactly when both components are; a basis for the product topology on a product of two spaces is the family of boxes with open (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, The product set 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).
The product topology on is the usual one, bounded open intervals are open in , and a subset of is open exactly when each of its points has such an interval around it inside the set (For the product topology on copies of the usual topology of is the metric topology of on , and hence also of and , so as a product and as a metric space are one space, The absolute value makes a metric space: is a metric, its open balls are the intervals , and it is unbounded, Intervals of : the nine order-convex forms, nondegeneracy, and length, Metrizable space: a topological space whose topology is induced by some metric; metrizability is topological, the metric is not).
Restrictions of continuous maps to subspaces are continuous; composites of continuous maps are continuous; continuity may be checked on an open cover and on a finite closed cover (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, Continuity may be checked on any open cover, and on any finite closed cover; composites of continuous maps are continuous).
A continuous open surjection is a quotient map (A continuous open surjection, a continuous closed surjection, and a continuous surjection admitting a continuous section are all quotient maps, clause 1); for a quotient map and a continuous constant on the fibres of , there is exactly one continuous with (For a quotient map , a map out of is continuous iff its composite with is; a continuous map on constant on the fibres of factors uniquely through ; and a composite of quotient maps is a quotient map, claim 2).
The square carries one topology, the product of the two subspace topologies being the subspace topology from (Products commute with subspaces; for infinite nonempty families, the closure identity uses the Axiom of Choice, claim 1; 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).
Verification
is continuous, its components and being composites of continuous maps, and surjective, since every is for some by surjectivity of .
For : . Indeed gives the inclusion , and conversely with , is .
exactly when and , by [A1] applied in each coordinate.
is continuous by [L3], and surjective: given write , ; then and lie in by [A2] and by [A1].
Fix integers and put . For let and define by . Each is continuous, being composed with a translation of each coordinate into , which is continuous by [L2], [L3] and [L5].
For : exactly when , by step 1.3 and the definition of . So the fibres of are exactly the classes of .
is constant on the fibres of : if then and for integers by step 1.3, and then and by [A2].
is an open map: by [L1] and [L2] the boxes with open in form a basis of , their images are the boxes by step 1.2, which are open in by [A1] and [L1], and the image of a union is the union of the images. With step 1.1 and [L4] this makes an open quotient map, which is claim 1.
The four maps of step 1.5 agree on the overlaps of the , which are contained in the lines and . On the two candidate values differ only in that the first coordinate of the argument of is in one and in the other, and ; on the same holds in the second coordinate, and at all four values are of the four corners of , which are all -equivalent.
By steps 1.5 and 2.4 and the finite closed cover of , [L3] gives a continuous restricting to each ; and on , since for one has , for one has , and at the value agrees with by , the same three cases applying to .
is continuous: the open sets , , cover by [L1] and [L2], and on each of them is the restriction of the continuous of step 3.1, hence continuous by [L3]; the open cover clause of [L3] then gives continuity of .
By step 2.1 and [L4] applied to the quotient map and the continuous map of step 1.4, there is exactly one continuous with ; by step 2.2 and [L4] applied to the quotient map of step 2.3 and the continuous of step 4.1, there is exactly one continuous with .
: for one has , which equals in every case, since for and with and ; and is surjective.
: for one has by [A1] and [A2]; and is surjective by step 1.1.
By steps 6.1 and 6.2 the continuous maps and are mutually inverse, so is a homeomorphism, which is claim 2; with step 2.3 both claims are proved.
Remarks
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Why the two-dimensional pasting is needed at all. A shorter route would be to say that 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 is open, so is open outright by step 2.3, and openness does pass to products.
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The corners are where the gluing is genuinely four-fold. The relation identifies , , and 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 agree there.
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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.
Depends on
- $\mathbb{R}/\mathbb{Z}$: 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
- For a quotient map $q : X \to Y$, a map out of $Y$ is continuous iff its composite with $q$ is; a continuous map on $X$ constant on the fibres of $q$ factors uniquely through $q$; and a composite of quotient maps is a quotient map
- The product set $\prod_{i \in I} X_i$ 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
- 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
- For $n \ge 1$ the product topology on $n$ copies of the usual topology of $\mathbb{R}$ is the metric topology of $d_\infty$ on $\mathbb{R}^n$, and hence also of $d_1$ and $d_2$, so $\mathbb{R}^n$ as a product and $\mathbb{R}^n$ as a metric space are one space
- Products commute with subspaces; for infinite nonempty families, the closure identity $\overline{\prod A_i}=\prod \overline{A_i}$ uses the Axiom of Choice
- Homeomorphism, open map, closed map, embedding, and what it means for a property to be topological
- A continuous open surjection, a continuous closed surjection, and a continuous surjection admitting a continuous section are all quotient maps
- Intervals of $\mathbb{R}$: the nine order-convex forms, nondegeneracy, and length
- Integer part: for every real $x$ there is exactly one integer $m$ with $m \le x < m + 1$
- The integers as equivalence classes of pairs of naturals
- 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
- Continuity may be checked on any open cover, and on any finite closed cover; composites of continuous maps are continuous
- The absolute value makes $\mathbb{R}$ a metric space: $d(x,y) = |x-y|$ is a metric, its open balls are the intervals $(x-r, x+r)$, and it is unbounded
- Metrizable space: a topological space whose topology is induced by some metric; metrizability is topological, the metric is not
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Sources
- Torus (Wikipedia) (standard reference, not scraped)
- Quotient space (topology) (Wikipedia) (standard reference, not scraped)