Product of a quotient map with the unit interval

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If is a quotient map, then is a quotient map. More generally the second factor may be any locally compact space that is Hausdorff. To prove the assertion, let have open preimage , and take . Choose and a compact neighbourhood of with . The set is open by compactness of , and is saturated under because membership in depends only on and the second coordinate. Hence is open by the quotient topology. The rectangle is a neighbourhood of contained in , proving that is open. This justifies parameterized homotopies defined on quotient spaces.

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