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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 X, the ordinary cylinder X×I is CGWH. If AX is a closed inclusion of CGWH spaces and f:AY is continuous with Y CGWH, the ordinary pushout P=XAY is CGWH; YP 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

[F1]

Kification preserves compact tests, cylinders are CG, and closed inclusions remain closed under k-products. Kification, compact tests, and finite constructions

[F2]

CGWH quotients are characterized by closed fibre relations, and WH is characterized by a closed k-diagonal. Weak Hausdorff diagonals and closed quotients

[F3]

Products preserve fibrewise quotient maps in CG. Compact-test exponential law and products of quotient maps

Proof

Given: The spaces, maps, and hypotheses in the statement above.

1.1

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.

F1F2
1.2

Put S=X⨿Y, P=(XA)⨿Y as a set, and let q:SP be identity off A and equal to f on A. Give P the quotient topology. In the four clopen pieces of S×kS, its equivalence relation is respectively ΔXEf, Gf, Gfop, and ΔY, where Ef={(a,a):f(a)=f(a)} and Gf={(a,y):f(a)=y}. These formulas include every fibre: only points of A are identified with points of Y, and two such points are equivalent exactly when their f-values agree.

F1
2.1

The sets Ef and Gf are inverse images of ΔY in A×kA and A×kY. They are closed there by F2, hence in the corresponding products with X by F1. The two diagonals are closed. The relation in step 1.2 is therefore closed, and F2 proves P CGWH. Maps from S constant on that relation are precisely compatible maps from X,Y, so F4 proves the pushout property in Top and in CGWH.

F1F2F4step 1.2
3.1

The map j:YP is injective. For closed FY, one has q1(j(F))=f1(F)⨿F, which is closed in S since A is closed. Hence j(F) is closed in P. This proves that j is a closed embedding. Set-theoretically X×PY consists exactly of (a,f(a)) for aA. A continuous compatible pair from any space has X-component landing in the ordinary subspace A and hence factors continuously there. This proves the pullback property. A closed DX disjoint from A similarly embeds as a closed subspace, since it and each of its closed subsets are saturated for q.

F4step 1.2step 2.1
4.1

The attaching subspace X×{0} 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 A=, the formula is simply the disjoint union, and when A=X, it is Y.

F1F2F3step 1.1step 2.1step 3.1

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