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Past exam of the options II course of the University of Oxford 2012 E E4 b ii Solution by
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Let and . This is continuous. It is onto: given , choose an integer shift bringing into , with the corresponding possible sign change in ; the resulting representative lies in .
Two representatives in are in the same orbit only if their first coordinates differ by an integer. An interior point can therefore be equivalent only to itself. Distinct boundary representatives have first coordinates zero and one, and the iterate identifies exactly with . Thus the fibres of are precisely the equivalence classes defining the Möbius band .
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