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Past exam of the topology course of the University of Oxford 2021 2 d i Solution by
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Use positive indices and write . SetFor fixed , this function is a homeomorphism from the unit circle to : it scales its radius to and translates its centre to . Thus it takes values in the Hawaiian earring and is surjective onto . It is continuous on each open slice ; since these slices form an open cover of , is continuous on the whole product topology.
Distinct circles meet only at . To see this directly, their equations areFor , subtraction gives , then . Each slice contains exactly one preimage of , namely . Therefore the only nonsingleton fibre of is .
Let be the quotient map collapsing . The universal property of the quotient topology supplies a unique continuous map with . The fibre calculation proves injectivity, and surjectivity follows from that of . Hence is the required continuous bijection.
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