A locally simply connected space and fundamental groups of one point unions of cones
A locally simply connected space and fundamental groups of one point unions of cones
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局部单连通空间和圆锥单点并的基本群
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10.1090/s0002-9939-1992-1132409-0
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1992
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K. Eda
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Let CX be the cone over a space X. Let a space X be first countable at x, then the following are equivalent: (1) X is locally simply connected at x; (2) ir1 ((X, x) V (X, x), x) is naturally isomorphic to the free product r I(X, x) * r1(X, x); (3) r I((CX, x) V (CX, x), x) is trivial. There exists a simply connected, locally simply connected Tychonoff space X with x e X, such that (X, x) V (X, x) is not simply connected. Griffiths [2] proved Theorem 1 (H. B. Griffiths). Let a space X be locally simply connected at x E X and also first countable at x. Then, for an arbitrary space Y with y E Y, the fundamental group 7r I((X, x) v (Y, y), x) of the one point union (X, x) V (Y, y) is naturally isomorphic to the free product 7r1 (X, x) * 7r,(Y, y). In addition, in the same paper he proved that local simple connectivity is essential in this theorem. On the other hand the author [1] of the present paper has shown that the first countability in the theorem is also essential. In ? 1 we shall prove Theorem 2. Let spaces X, Y be first countable at x, y, respectively. Then the following are equivalent: (1) At least one of X and Y is locally simply connected at x or y, respectively; (2) 7rI((X, x) V (Y, y), x) is naturally isomorphic to the free product rl (X, X) * 7fl(Y, Y) ; (3) 7rI ((CX, x) V (CY, y), x) is trivial, where CX, CY are the cones over X, Y, respectively. Corollary 3. Let a space X be first countable at x. Then the following are equivalent: (1) X is locally simply connected at x; (2) 7r1 ((X, x) V (X, x), x) is naturally isomorphic to the free product ilr(X, x) * 7rl(X, x); (3) r I((CX, x) V (CX, x), x) is trivial. Received by the editors February 27, 1990 and, in revised form, November 26, 1990. 1991 Mathematics Subject Classification. Primary 55Q20, 55Q52.