Mathematics – Geometric Topology
Scientific paper
2011-02-04
Topology and its Applications 158(2011), 397-408
Mathematics
Geometric Topology
17 pages, 8 figures
Scientific paper
10.1016/j.topol.2010.11.017
The purpose of this paper is: (i) to construct a space which is semilocally simply connected in the sense of Spanier even though its Spanier group is non-trivial; (ii) to propose a modification of the notion of a Spanier group so that via the modified Spanier group semilocal simple connectivity can be characterized; and (iii) to point out that with just a slightly modified definition of semilocal simple connectivity which is sometimes also used in literature, the classical Spanier group gives the correct characterization within the general class of path-connected topological spaces. While the condition "semilocally simply connected" plays a crucial role in classical covering theory, in generalized covering theory one needs to consider the condition "homotopically Hausdorff" instead. The paper also discusses which implications hold between all of the abovementioned conditions and, via the modified Spanier groups, it also unveils the weakest so far known algebraic characterization for the existence of generalized covering spaces as introduced by Fischer and Zastrow. For most of the implications, the paper also proves the non-reversibility by providing the corresponding examples. Some of them rely on spaces that are newly constructed in this paper.
Fischer Hanspeter
Repovš Dušan
Virk Ziga
Zastrow Andreas
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