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Set $F(x)=|x^3-x|$. The relation is exactlyIt is therefore the equivalence relation induced by a function: equality of the two function values is reflexive, symmetric, and transitive. Hence this is an equivalence relation.

Use the equivalence relation induced by a function:Equality in $Y$ supplies reflexivity, symmetry, and transitivity, so this is an equivalence relation. Define $\bar{f}:X/\sim \to Y$ by $\bar{f}([x])=f(x)$. It is well-defined; it is injective by the definition of $\sim$ and surjective because $f$ is surjective.

For an open set $W\subseteq Y$,is open by continuity of $f$. The quotient topology therefore makes ${\bar{f}}^{-1}(W)$ open, proving that $\bar{f}$ is continuous.

The continuous image of a compact space theorem applied to $p$ makes $X/\sim$ compact. If $C$ is closed in $X/\sim$, it is compact, and $\bar{f}(C)$ is compact in the Hausdorff space $Y$, hence closed. Thus $\bar{f}$ is a closed map. Its inverse function is continuous, since its preimage of $C$ is precisely $\bar{f}(C)$. We have proved that $\bar{f}$ is a homeomorphism, including the compact-to-Hausdorff continuous bijection theorem used in the argument.

Write $q(x,y)=x^2+y^2$. Equality of $q$-values defines an equivalence relation induced by a function: equality is reflexive, symmetric, and transitive, so all three properties hold for $R$. The equivalence class of $(x,y)$ isFor $(x,y)\ne (0,0)$ this is the circle centred at the origin with radius $\sqrt{x^2+y^2}$; the remaining equivalence class is the singleton $\{(0,0)\}$.