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Compact generation preserves the cylinder and closed pushouts
Statement
Kification preserves compact Hausdorff test maps and cubical relative homotopy classes. For CGWH , the ordinary cylinder is CGWH. If is a closed inclusion of CGWH spaces and is continuous with CGWH, the ordinary pushout is CGWH; is a closed embedding and the pushout square is a pullback. These assertions apply to the cylinder attachments and closed-track, cone and suspension quotients below.
Facts & Assumptions
Kification preserves compact tests, cylinders are CG, and closed inclusions remain closed under k-products. Kification, compact tests, and finite constructions
CGWH quotients are characterized by closed fibre relations, and WH is characterized by a closed k-diagonal. Weak Hausdorff diagonals and closed quotients
Products preserve fibrewise quotient maps in CG. Compact-test exponential law and products of quotient maps
Quotient descent gives continuous factorizations and composites of quotients. 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
Proof
Given: The spaces, maps, and hypotheses in the statement above.
The compact-test and relative-homotopy assertions are F1. Its ordinary cylinder is CG and agrees with the k-product; F2 gives WH of that product. Thus it is CGWH.
Put , as a set, and let be identity off and equal to on . Give the quotient topology. In the four clopen pieces of , its equivalence relation is respectively , , , and , where and . These formulas include every fibre: only points of are identified with points of , and two such points are equivalent exactly when their f-values agree.
The sets and are inverse images of in and . They are closed there by F2, hence in the corresponding products with by F1. The two diagonals are closed. The relation in step 1.2 is therefore closed, and F2 proves CGWH. Maps from constant on that relation are precisely compatible maps from , so F4 proves the pushout property in Top and in CGWH.
The map is injective. For closed , one has , which is closed in since is closed. Hence is closed in . This proves that is a closed embedding. Set-theoretically consists exactly of for . A continuous compatible pair from any space has X-component landing in the ordinary subspace and hence factors continuously there. This proves the pullback property. A closed disjoint from similarly embeds as a closed subspace, since it and each of its closed subsets are saturated for q.
The attaching subspace is closed, as are a WH basepoint track and finite unions of such tracks with a cone end. Collapsing any such closed subspace is the preceding pushout with a point. Thus the resulting cylinder, reduced-cylinder, cone and suspension quotients are CGWH. Their quotient products use F3 and retain the fibre coordinate; no whole product subspace is inadvertently collapsed. When , the formula is simply the disjoint union, and when , it is .
Depends on
- Compactly generated conventions for based homotopy
- Kification, compact tests, and finite constructions
- Compact-test exponential law and products of quotient maps
- Weak Hausdorff diagonals and closed quotients
- 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
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Sources
- May, A Concise Course in Algebraic Topology (standard reference, not scraped)
- N. P. Strickland, The category of CGWH spaces (standard reference, not scraped)