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19 changes: 19 additions & 0 deletions properties/P000230.md
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uid: P000230
name: Locally simply connected
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Alias "strongly locally simply connected"

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I'll refer to one of Armentrout's papers since he seems to have written a lot on this property and explicitly used that name.

This one's good because it uses it in the title: Armentrout, BING'S DOGBONE SPACE IS NOT STRONGLY LOCALLY SIMPLY CONNECTED

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Yes I agree, I meant add "strongly locally simply connected" as alias and keep this

refs:
- wikipedia: Locally simply connected space
name: Locally simply connected space on Wikipedia
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Wikipedia does not seem very authoritative in this case. The article would need to be "fixed" anyway. But if we want to keep it, can you move it to the end of the list of references?

- mr: 2766102
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- mr: 2766102
- zb: "1209.57001"

zb is preferable if available, because more accessible (it's in our guidelines now)

name: Introduction to topological manifolds (Lee)
- zb: "0951.54001"
name: Topology (Munkres)
- mo: 487326
name: 'Definition of locally simply connected space'
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$X$ admits a basis of open sets which are {P200}.

Equivalently, for every $x \in X$ and each neighborhood $N$ of $x$ in $X$, there is a simply connected open neighborhood $U$ of $x$ contained in $N$.
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Equivalently, for every $x \in X$ and each neighborhood $N$ of $x$ in $X$, there is a simply connected open neighborhood $U$ of $x$ contained in $N$.
Equivalently, for each $x \in X$ every neighborhood of $x$ contains a simply connected open neighborhood of $x$.

simpler, more concise


Defined on page 298 of {{mr:2766102}}, page 495 of {{zb:0951.54001}} and as property $P_1$ of {{mo:487326}}.
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uid: P000231
name: Weakly locally simply connected
refs:
- zb: "0063.00842"
name: Theory of Lie groups. I (Chevalley)
- mo: 487326
name: 'Definition of locally simply connected space'
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Every point of $X$ has a neighborhood which is {P200}.

Defined as "locally simply connected" on page 54 of {{zb:0063.00842}} and as property $P_4$ of {{mo:487326}}.
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uid: P000232
name: $LC^1$
aliases:
- Locally simply connected
refs:
- zb: "0153.52905"
name: Theory of retracts (Borsuk)
- mo: 487326
name: 'Definition of locally simply connected space'
- mathse: 5126526
name: Is Borsuk's definition of $LC^1$ equivalent to this formulation of 'locally simply connected' ($P_{10}$)?
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$X$ is locally $0$-connected and locally $1$-connected, as in {{zb:0153.52905}}.
A space $X$ is locally $n$-connected if for every $x \in X$ and each neighborhood $N$ of $x$ in $X$, there is a neighborhood $U$ of $x$ contained in $N$ such that every map $S^n \to N$ with values in $U$ is null-homotopic in $N$.
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null-homotopic relatve what? Maybe it doesnt matter (not sure about conjugacy classes in higher homotopy groups)

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null-homotopic relatve what?

This is a very important comment. Free spheres are not necessarily conjugacy classes of based spheres at all.

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There is no relative to anything here. Saying "null-homotopic in $N$" and the fact that the domain is a sphere kind of makes it clear that there is no basepoint and we are just talking about a regular homotopy between a map and a constant map, all within $N$.
Borsuk was using the language "... is homotopic in $U^{S^n}$ to a constant map", which is not ambiguous as it precisely mentions the kind of homotopy, but it does read a little strange to me. Not sure it's needed, but would you prefer something like "... is homotopic to a constant map within $N$"? Or something else?

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I'd like a mention of "(without basepoint)" or something similar somewhere in there. I'm no expert, but when I see "n-connected", it's always about homotopies with basepoints. Having "locally n-connected" involve unbased homotopies was jarring to me.


Equivalently, for every $x \in X$ and each neighborhood $N$ of $x$ in $X$, there is a path-connected neighborhood $U$ of $x$ contained in $N$ such that every loop in $U$ is null-homotopic in $N$. See {{mathse:5126526}}.

This property is part of a hierarchy of $LC^n$ properties which includes {P42} as $LC^0$.
Defined on page 54 of {{zb:0153.52905}} and as property $P_{10}$ of {{mo:487326}}.

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#### Meta-properties
- This property is preserved by retractions.
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Doesnt this metaproperty also hold for the other 2 versions?

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Also metaproperties :

For all three:

  • holds iff it holds for the kolmogorv quotient
  • preserved by arbitrary disjoint union
  • preserved by finite products (not 100% if it holds for LC^1)
  • maybe hereditary wrt clopen?

For locally simply connected and lc1:

  • hereditary wrt open subsets

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Here Moishe Kohan mentions that ANRs need not have P230. One of the ANRs he mentions is the one-point compactification of the Whitehead manifold, $W^+$, described by Melikhov here. Since $W^+ \times \mathbb{R} \approx S^3 \times \mathbb{R}$, it follows that $W^+ \times \mathbb{R}$ is a manifold, hence has all of these properties. Since $W^+$ is a retraction of $W^+ \times \mathbb{R}$, we want to argue that $W^+$ does not satisfy P230 or P231. Since it uses concepts unfamiliar to me, it's hard for me to tell from Melikhov's post if his argument applies without much modificaton to P230 and P231 however. I do know that the Whitehead manifold is famously not simply connected at infinity, but this property doesn't seem to correspond to P230 or P231.

There's also the other example shared by Melikhov here which I haven't tried to understand but which seems relevant. Most relevant actually is Theorem 3 on page 143 of Armentrout's paper which says "THEOREM 3. The space X is not strongly locally simply connected.", and Lemma 10, which says, "LEMMA 10. $X \times S^1$ is homeomorphic to $S^3 \times S^1$."

Summarizing, Armentrout's paper seems to directly show P230 is not preserved by retractions. I'll have to look more for a paper about P231, but I strongly suspect it is not either. Either way, the question seems likely to be highly non-trivial so let's not hold this up for that.

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nice. (very) non easy metaproperties are better added in a later PR anyways. :)

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*(not 100% if it holds for LC^1)

The property of being locally homotopically trivial over $A$ is preserved by finite products

Also metaproperties :

For all three:

  • holds iff it holds for the kolmogorv quotient
  • preserved by arbitrary disjoint union
  • preserved by finite products (not 100% if it holds for LC^1)
  • maybe hereditary wrt clopen?

For locally simply connected and lc1:

  • hereditary wrt open subsets

I proved that LC^1 is preserved by finite products, and these are good suggestions, but if you don't mind I'd prefer we add those in next PR. It takes me longer than you might think to make minor modifications, and I'm really supposed to be working on other things anyway.

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sure, no hurry :)

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all nice comments, unfortunately later on they will get "lost" when commenting on particular lines of a file. But great comments!

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P000122: true
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P000229: true
P000230: true
refs:
- zb: "0951.54001"
name: Topology (Munkres)
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For $x \in X$ pick a neighborhood $U$ homeomorphic to $\mathbb{R}^n$.
Then $\pi_1(U,x)$ is trivial (see Example 1 on page 331 of {{zb:0951.54001}}).
A locally Euclidean space admits a basis of Euclidean open balls.
For a Euclidean open ball $U$ and $x \in U$, $\pi_1(U,x)$ is trivial (see Example 1 on page 331 of {{zb:0951.54001}}).
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I just noticed that in theory we would also need to show a euclidean ball is path connected (we also dont mention this currently), but maybe its trivial enough to omit this.

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That's a good point. I can say instead that R^n is contractible then leave it at that.

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P000090: true
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P000229: true
P000230: true
refs:
- mathse: 2965374
name: Answer to "Are minimal neighborhoods in an Alexandrov topology path-connected?"
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uid: T000853
if:
P000230: true
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P000231: true
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Immediate from the definitions.
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P000230: true
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P000232: true
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Immediate from the equivalent characterizations of each property.
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P000231: true
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P000229: true
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Immediate from the definitions.
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if:
P000232: true
then:
P000229: true
refs:
- mathse: 4044399
name: Characterizing simply connected spaces
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Let $x \in X$. By {P232}, there exists a path-connected neighborhood $U$ of $x$ such that every
loop $ S^1 \to X$ loop with image in $U$ is null-homotopic. Let $\sigma$ be a loop in $U$ based at $x$.
Choose a null-homotopy $F : S^1 \times [0, 1] \to X$ from $\sigma$ to a constant loop. Apply the arguments
$(4) \Rightarrow (5)$ and $(5) \Rightarrow (1)$ from {{mathse:4044399}} to $F$ in order to construct a
basepoint preserving null-homotopy of $\sigma$ to the constant loop at $x$.
Then {P229} follows.
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uid: T000857
if:
P000232: true
then:
P000042: true
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$LC^1$ implies $LC^0$ by definition.