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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2008 iii Paper 9 1 f Solution by
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False. Give the two-element group the indiscrete topology and take with the product topology. The indiscrete factor is a topological group, since every map into an indiscrete space is continuous, and the product group operations are continuous. Points and , , have identical neighbourhoods, so is not a Hausdorff space. However, its continuous projection onto is surjective. If were compact, its image would be compact, which it is not.
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