Paper 3, Section I, H

Metric and Topological Spaces | Part IB, 2010

Let XX be a topological space and YY be a set. Let p:X→Yp: X \rightarrow Y be a surjection. The quotient topology on YY is defined as follows: a subset V⊂YV \subset Y is open if and only if p−1(V)p^{-1}(V) is open in XX.

(1) Show that this does indeed define a topology on YY, and show that pp is continuous when we endow YY with this topology.

(2) Let ZZ be another topological space and f:Y→Zf: Y \rightarrow Z be a map. Show that ff is continuous if and only if f∘p:X→Zf \circ p: X \rightarrow Z is continuous.

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