Paper 4, Section II, H

Metric and Topological Spaces | Part IB, 2010

(1) Prove that if XX is a compact topological space, then a closed subset YY of XX endowed with the subspace topology is compact.

(2) Consider the following equivalence relation on R2\mathbb{R}^{2} :

(x1,y1)(x2,y2)(x1x2,y1y2)Z2\left(x_{1}, y_{1}\right) \sim\left(x_{2}, y_{2}\right) \Longleftrightarrow\left(x_{1}-x_{2}, y_{1}-y_{2}\right) \in \mathbb{Z}^{2}

Let X=R2/X=\mathbb{R}^{2} / \sim be the quotient space endowed with the quotient topology, and let p:R2Xp: \mathbb{R}^{2} \rightarrow X be the canonical surjection mapping each element to its equivalence class. Let Z={(x,y)R2y=2x}.Z=\left\{(x, y) \in \mathbb{R}^{2} \mid y=\sqrt{2} x\right\} .

(i) Show that XX is compact.

(ii) Assuming that p(Z)p(Z) is dense in XX, show that pZ:Zp(Z)\left.p\right|_{Z}: Z \rightarrow p(Z) is bijective but not homeomorphic.

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