Let and be the quotient maps. The continuous mapis a homeomorphism onto the upper hemisphere; its inverse function is the restriction of the projection map . Every antipodal pair on meets that hemisphere. Moreover, two points of this hemisphere are antipodal only if both lie on the equator. ThusBy the universal property of the quotient topology, induces a continuous bijection
To justify continuity of the inverse function, the source is compact, being a continuous image of a compact space ; the Heine-Borel theorem gives compactness of . The target is Hausdorff, as follows. For distinct equivalence classes , putIn , take the union of the two relative open balls of radius about , and similarly take about . Every distance between their respective centres is at least , so the triangle inequality gives . These open sets contain entire antipodal pairs, hence and similarly for . The quotient topology therefore makes and disjoint open neighbourhoods of the two classes.
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.