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This exam has two parts, Al, A2, A3, and Bl, B2, B3. The document provides instructions for taking the exam and outlines the problems to be covered in each section. Part A covers manifolds and topology questions about covering spaces, fundamental groups, and fixed point theorems. Part B also contains topology problems but the content is not described. Students are instructed to use separate booklets for parts A and B and not to include their real name on the booklets.

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Mantop S11

This exam has two parts, Al, A2, A3, and Bl, B2, B3. The document provides instructions for taking the exam and outlines the problems to be covered in each section. Part A covers manifolds and topology questions about covering spaces, fundamental groups, and fixed point theorems. Part B also contains topology problems but the content is not described. Students are instructed to use separate booklets for parts A and B and not to include their real name on the booklets.

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Manifolds & Topology

April 2011

This exam has two parts, Al, A2, A3, and Bl, B2, B3. Please use separate blue books for
each part A and B. Be sure to put your code name on each book and indicate clearly which
problems are in each book. Do not write your real name on any book. Please explain
your work clearly and indicate clearly what results you are using in your explanation. No
calculators, books, cell phones, etc.

Al. i) Let X be a path connected & locally path connected space. Define a covering space

p:X -+X

ii) Let p : X -> X be a covering space, xoGl and xq G X, p(x0) = xq. Describe the
relation between this covering space and the fundamental groups of these spaces.

iii) Suppose p : X > X is a covering space with p~l (x) consisting of more than one
point. Suppose X is compact. Show that 7Ti(X, xq) contains a proper subgroup of finite
index.

A2 i) State the Brouwer fixed point theorem.

ii) Let D2 = {(Xly) e R2 | x2 + y2 < 1} S1 = {(x,y) R2 | x2 + y2 = 1},


X = D2 {(0,0)}. Show that there is a continuous / : X > X with no fixed point.

iii) Is ii) still correct if X is replaced by D2 with k interior points, k > 1, removed?

A3 i) Let Y be the plane R2 with k points removed, k = 0. Show that the identity map
Id : S2 -> S2, S2 the 2-sphere, does not factor S2 > Y > S2 with / and g continuous.
(Hint: if k > 0, Y has the homotopy type of a 1-dimensional simplicial complex.)

ii) Let S2n be an even dimensional sphere, and suppose there was / : S2n > S2n
continuous, f(x) ^ x, all x S2n. Show that / is then homotopic to the antipodal map.
Conclude that no such / exists.

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