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The document discusses several examples of topological spaces and their components and path components. 1) The real line R with the usual topology has path components that are single points. 2) The product space Rω with the product topology is path connected, but with the uniform topology it is not connected and the path components are bounded vs unbounded sequences. 3) The product space Rω with the box topology has components consisting of sequences that are eventually equal.

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The document discusses several examples of topological spaces and their components and path components. 1) The real line R with the usual topology has path components that are single points. 2) The product space Rω with the product topology is path connected, but with the uniform topology it is not connected and the path components are bounded vs unbounded sequences. 3) The product space Rω with the box topology has components consisting of sequences that are eventually equal.

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11th December 2004

Munkres 25
Ex. 25.1. R is totally disconnected [Ex 23.7]; its components and path components [Thm 25.5] are points. The only continuous maps f : R R are the constant maps as continuous maps on connected spaces have connected images. Ex. 25.2. R in product topology: Let X be R in the product topology. Then X is is path connected (any product of path connected spaces is path connected [Ex 24.8]) and hence also connected. R in uniform topology: Let X be R in the uniform topology. Then X is not connected for X = B U where both B, the set of bounded sequences, and U , the complementary set of unbounded sequences, are open as any sequence within distance 1 of a bounded 2 (unbounded) sequence is bounded (unbounded). We shall now determine the path components of X. Note rst that for any sequence (yn ) we have (0) and (yn ) are in the same path component (yn ) is a bounded sequence : Let u : [0, 1] X be a path from (0) to (yn ). Since u(0) = (0) is bounded, also u(1) = (yn ) is bounded for the connected set u([0, 1]) can not intersect both subsets in a separation of X. : The formula u(t) = (tyn ) is a path from (0) to (yn ). To see that u is continuous note that d(u(t1 ), u(t0 )) = sup{n Z+ | min(|(t1 t0 )yn |, 1)} = |t1 t0 |M when |t1 t0 | < M 1 where M = sup{|yn | | n Z+ } and d is the uniform metric. Next observe that (yn ) (xn ) + (yn ) is an isometry or X to itself [Ex 20.7]. It follows that in fact (xn ) and (yn ) are in the same path component (yn xn ) is a bounded sequence for any two sequences (xn ), (yn ) R . This describes the path components of X. It also shows that balls of radius < 1 are path connected. Therefore X is locally path connected so that the path components are the components [Thm 25.5]. R in box topology: Let X be R in the box topology. Then X is not connected for the box topology is ner than the uniform topology [1, Thm 20.4, Ex 23.1]; in fact, X = B U where both B, the set of bounded sequences, and U , the complementary set of unbounded sequences, are open as they are open in the uniform topology or as any sequence in the neighborhood (xn 1, xn + 1) is bounded (unbounded) if (xn ) is bounded (unbounded), see [1, Example 6, p 151]. The (path) components of X can be described as follows: (xn ) and (yn ) in the same (path) component xn = yn for all but nitely many n : Suppose that xn and yn are dierent for inntely many n Z+ . For each n, choose a homeomorphism hn : R R such that hn (xn ) = 0 and hn (yn ) = n in case xn = yn . Then h = hn : X X is a homeomorphism with h(xn ) = (0) and h(yn ) = n for innitely many n. Since a homeomorphism takes (path) components to (path) components and h(xn ) = (0) B and h(yn ) U are not in the same (path) component, (xn ) and (yn ) are not in the same (path) component either. : The map u(t) = ((1 t)xn + tyn ), t [0, 1], is constant in all but nitely many coordinates. From this we see that u : [0, 1] X is a continuous path from (xn ) to (yn ). Therefore, (xn ) and (yn ) are in the same (path) component. X is not locally connected since the components are not open [1, Thm 25.3]. The component of the constant sequence (0) is R . R in the box topology is an example of a space where the components and the path components are the same even though the space is not locally path connected, cf [1, Thm 25.5].
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Ex. 25.3. A connected and not path connected space can not be locally path connected [Thm 25.5]. Any linear continuum is locally connected (the topology basis consists of intervals which are connected in a linear continuum [Thm 24.1]). The subsets {x} [0, 1] = [x 0, x 1], x [0, 1], are path connected for they are homeomorphic to [0, 1] in the usual order topology [Thm 16.4]. There is no continuous path starting in [x 0, x 1] and and ending in [y 0, y 1] when x = y for the same reason as there is no path from 0 0 to 1 1 [Example 6, p 156]. Therefore these sets 2 are the path components of Io . Since the path components are not open we see once again that 2 Io is not locally path connected [Thm 25.4]. (Io 2 is an example of a space with one component and uncountable many path components.) Ex. 25.4. Any open subset of a locally path connected space is locally path connected. In a locally path connected space, the components and the path components are the same [Thm 25.5]. Ex. 25.8. Let p : X Y be a quotient map where X is locally (path-)connected. The claim is that Y is locally (path-)connected. Let U be an open subspace of Y and C a (path-)component of U . We must show that C is open in Y , ie that that p1 (C) is open in X. But p1 (C) is a union of (path-)components of the open set p1 (U ) and in the locally (path-)connected space X open sets have open (path-)components. References
[1] James R. Munkres, Topology. Second edition, Prentice-Hall Inc., Englewood Clis, N.J., 2000. MR 57 #4063

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