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  2. Free loop - Wikipedia

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    Thus, a free loop, as opposed to a based loop used in the definition of the fundamental group, is a map from the circle to the space without the basepoint-preserving restriction. Assuming the space is path-connected , free homotopy classes of free loops correspond to conjugacy classes in the fundamental group.

  3. Map (graph theory) - Wikipedia

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    A map with twelve pentagonal faces. In topology and graph theory, a map is a subdivision of a surface such as the Euclidean plane into interior-disjoint regions, formed by embedding a graph onto the surface and forming connected components (faces) of the complement of the graph.

  4. Topological map - Wikipedia

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    In cartography, geology, and robotics, [1] a topological map is a type of diagram that has been simplified so that only vital information remains and unnecessary detail has been removed. These maps lack scale, also distance and direction are subject to change and/or variation, but the topological relationship between points is maintained.

  5. Topologies on spaces of linear maps - Wikipedia

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    The following sets will constitute the basic open subsets of topologies on spaces of linear maps. For any subsets and , let (,):= {: ()}.. The family {(,):,} forms a neighborhood basis [1] at the origin for a unique translation-invariant topology on , where this topology is not necessarily a vector topology (that is, it might not make into a TVS).

  6. Local homeomorphism - Wikipedia

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    Inclusion maps If U ⊆ X {\displaystyle U\subseteq X} is any subspace (where as usual, U {\displaystyle U} is equipped with the subspace topology induced by X {\displaystyle X} ) then the inclusion map i : U → X {\displaystyle i:U\to X} is always a topological embedding .

  7. Pointless topology - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, pointless topology, also called point-free topology (or pointfree topology) and locale theory, is an approach to topology that avoids mentioning points, and in which the lattices of open sets are the primitive notions. [1] In this approach it becomes possible to construct topologically interesting spaces from purely algebraic ...

  8. Loop space - Wikipedia

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    In topology, a branch of mathematics, the loop space ΩX of a pointed topological space X is the space of (based) loops in X, i.e. continuous pointed maps from the pointed circle S 1 to X, equipped with the compact-open topology. Two loops can be multiplied by concatenation. With this operation, the loop space is an A ∞-space.

  9. Mapping class group of a surface - Wikipedia

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    It is a finitely generated, torsion-free subgroup [20] and its study is of fundamental importance for its bearing on both the structure of the mapping class group itself (since the arithmetic group ⁡ is comparatively very well understood, a lot of facts about ⁡ boil down to a statement about its Torelli subgroup) and applications to 3 ...