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Math4202 Topology II (Lecture 1)

Topology of manifolds

Fundamental groups

Use fundamental group as invariant for topological spaces up to homeomorphism (exists bijective and continuous map with continuous inverse) / homotopy equivalence.

Classifying two dimensional surfaces.

• Sphere
• Torus
• \mathbb{R}P^2

Quotient spaces

Let X be a topological space and f:X\to Y is a continuous, surjective map. WIth the property that U\subset Y is open if and only if f^{-1}(U) is open in X, we say f is a quotient map and Y is a quotient space.