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Group Acting On Top Spaces

The document outlines a course on Topology-I (MM 453) covering quotient topology concepts from January to May 2025. It includes notations for closed intervals, spheres, and projective spaces, as well as a group action definition leading to equivalence relations. Several questions are posed regarding homeomorphisms and properties of quotient spaces involving actions of groups on various mathematical structures.

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Group Acting On Top Spaces

The document outlines a course on Topology-I (MM 453) covering quotient topology concepts from January to May 2025. It includes notations for closed intervals, spheres, and projective spaces, as well as a group action definition leading to equivalence relations. Several questions are posed regarding homeomorphisms and properties of quotient spaces involving actions of groups on various mathematical structures.

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Topology-I (MM 453) Quotient topology-II Jan-May-2025

Notations

• The closed interval I = [0, 1]

• The closed unit disc D n = {(x 1 , x 2 , . . . , x n ) ∈ Rn : x i2 ≤ 1}


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• The sphere Sn = (x 1 , x 2 , . . . , x n+1 ) ∈ Rn+1 : n+1 2


© P ª
i =1 x i = 1

• The real projective space Pn

• Let X be a topological space and let G be a group acting on X . We define an equivalence


relation using the group action as follows.

x ∼G y if and only if there exists g ∈ G such that y = g · x

The quotient space under the above equivalence relation is denoted by X /G.

Questions

1. Consider the following action of Zn on Rn .

Zn × Rn → Rn given by (z, v) 7→ z + v
1
Show that Rn /Zn is homeomorphic to S · · × S1}.
| × ·{z
n−times

2. Define the map Z × (R × [−1, 1]) → (R × [−1, 1]) by (n, (x, t )) 7→ (x + n, (−1)n · t ) Show that
the orbit space of this action is homeomorphic to the Möbius band.

3. Let Z/2Z = {±1} and consider

Z/2Z × Sn → Sn given by (ϵ, v) 7→ ϵ · v.

Show that Sn /{±1} is homeomorphic to Pn .

4. Consider the action of orthogonal group on a sphere.

O(n, R) × Sn−1 → Sn−1 given by (A, v) 7→ Av

(a) Show the the above map is continuous.


(b) Show that the map ϕ : O(n, R) → Sn−1 given by A 7→ Ae 1 is continuous and surjec-
tive. Conclude that f is a quotient map.
(c) Show that O(n, R) O(n − 1, R) is homeomorphic to Sn−1 .
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5. Show, using similar arguments as in the Question 4, that SO(n, R) SO(n − 1, R) is home-
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omorphic to Sn−1 .

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