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Interval exponential law and quotient homotopies
Statement
For arbitrary topological spaces , with carrying the ordinary compact-open topology, the assignments give a bijection between continuous maps and . If is an arbitrary quotient map, is an ordinary quotient map. For CG spaces the correspondence lifts to kified mapping spaces and respects based restrictions and homotopies. For CGWH targets the based mapping subspaces are CGWH.
Facts & Assumptions
A compact fibre in an open set has an open tube. Tube lemma: if is compact and an open contains , then contains for some open
Fibre-constant continuous maps descend continuously through quotient maps. 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
CGWH cylinders are ordinary products and the closed-track quotients are CGWH. Compact generation preserves the cylinder and closed pushouts
Currying holds for kified mapping spaces and k-products. Compact-test exponential law and products of quotient maps
Based and loop mapping subspaces with CGWH target are CGWH. Weak Hausdorff diagonals and closed quotients
Proof
Given: The spaces, maps, and hypotheses in the statement above.
Evaluation is continuous: at with open, choose a closed interval neighbourhood of contained in . Then is a neighbourhood mapping into . Relative interval neighbourhoods work at 0 and 1.
For continuous , the inverse image of under is open: for any of its points , the open set contains and F1 supplies a tube. Thus h is continuous into . Conversely compose with step 1.1. The resulting functions are inverse under evaluation at each .
If a continuous is constant on each fibre of , its transpose is constant on q-fibres. By F2 it descends to a continuous , which uncurries by step 2.1 to a continuous . Apply this to the characteristic function of into the Sierpinski space with opens . Continuity of the characteristic function is exactly openness of U. If is open, the preceding descent makes U open. The map is surjective and continuous; hence it is quotient.
For CG spaces the kified correspondence is F4; the interval product already has its ordinary topology. Endpoint and basepoint equations are preserved pointwise by transpose and inverse transpose. Continuous maps from CG parameters landing in the corresponding subspace lift to its kification by the CG-source property contained in the conventions of F4. For WH targets these subspaces are closed and CGWH by F5; F3 supplies the closed-track quotient constructions. Applying the same correspondence to a cylinder parameter, or using the quotient-times-I conclusion of step 3.1, carries relative and based homotopies to relative and based homotopies.
Depends on
- Compactly generated conventions for based homotopy
- 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 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
- Continuity may be checked on any open cover, and on any finite closed cover; composites of continuous maps are continuous
- Compact generation preserves the cylinder and closed pushouts
- Compact-test exponential law and products of quotient maps
- Weak Hausdorff diagonals and closed quotients
- Tube lemma: if $K$ is compact and an open $N \subseteq X \times Z$ contains $K \times \{z_0\}$, then $N$ contains $K \times W$ for some open $W \ni z_0$
Used by
- Fiber transport and monodromy action Definition
- Mapping path space replacement of a map Definition
- Cofiber of a based cofibration is equivalent to the quotient Lemma
- Iterated cofibers rotate with suspension reflection Lemma
- Pushouts and products preserve the cofibrations used here Lemma
- Relative cubical disk model and compression Lemma
- Suspension homotopy classes have natural group structures Lemma
- A fibration has path lifting and homotopy lifting relative to a subspace Proposition
- Cofibrations are characterized by a retraction of the mapping cylinder strip Proposition
- Cubical and spherical models of higher homotopy agree Proposition
- Loop suspension adjunction on based homotopy classes Proposition
- Mapping cylinder factorization Theorem
- Mapping path factorization Theorem
- Numerable fiber bundles are hurewicz fibrations Theorem
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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)