Universal covering spaces, a footnote

2020/12/30 by Petar Pavešić, Pavešić, Petar
Mathematics · Medicine · #Homotopy and Cohomology in Algebraic Topology #Advanced Topics in Algebra #Ophthalmology and Eye Disorders

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2012.15264

Abstract

We give a short proof that, for nice X, the based fundamental groupoid of X with topology induced by the compact open topology on the space of paths, is indeed the universal covering space of X.

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