Cone (topology)
= Cone (topology)
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In topology, the **cone** is a fundamental construction that captures the idea of collapsing a space into a single point. Specifically, the cone over a topological space \\( X \\) is denoted as \\( \\text\{Cone\}(X) \\) and can be described intuitively as "taking the space \\( X \\) and stretching it up to a point.