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Circle modulo reflection (S1/(z∼z)≅[0,1])

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Identify points of the circle having the same real coordinate, equivalently points related by complex conjugation. The continuous surjection h(z)=(1+Rez)/2 has exactly these equivalence classes as its fibers. It induces a continuous bijection from the quotient space to the closed interval. The quotient space is compact as a continuous image of a compact space, while the closed interval is Hausdorff, so the compact-to-Hausdorff continuous bijection theorem makes the induced map a homeomorphism. The two fixed points of the reflection become the two interval endpoints.

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