On strong small loop transfer spaces relative to subgroups of fundamental groups

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Abstract: Let H be a subgroup of the fundamental group pi1(X,x0). By extending the concept of strong SLT space to a relative version with respect to H, strong H-SLT space, first, we investigate the existence of a covering map for strong H-SLT spaces. Moreover, we show that a semicovering map is a covering map in the presence of strong H-SLT property. Second, we present conditions under which the whisker topology agrees with the lasso topology on widetildeXH. Also, we study the relationship between open subsets of pi1wh(X,x0) and pi1l(X,x0). Finally, we give some examples to justify the definition and study of strong H-SLT spaces.


Small Loop Transfer (SLT) spaces were defined by \textit{N. Brodskiy}, \textit{J. Dydak}, \textit{B. Labuz} and \textit{A. Mitra} [``Topological and uniform structures on universal covering spaces, Preprint, \url{arXiv:1206.0071}]. A topological space \(X\) is an SLT space if for every path \(\alpha\) in \(X\) and every neighborhood \(U\) of \(\alpha(0)\) there is a neighborhood \(V\) of \(\alpha(1)\) such that given a loop \(\beta : (S^1, 1) \to (V, \alpha(1))\) there is a loop \( \gamma : (S^1,1)\to(U,\alpha(0))\) that is homotopic to the concatenation \(\alpha * \beta * \alpha^{-1} \text{ rel }\alpha(0)\). SLT spaces are a class of spaces, for which the whisker and the quotient of the compact-open topology on the fundamental group agree in the realm of Peano spaces. Brodskiy at al. also presented a strong version of the SLT property by requiring, roughly speaking, that the choice of \(V\) depends only on the endpoints of \(\alpha\) but not \(\alpha\) itself. Strong SLT spaces are a class of spaces, for which the whisker and the lasso topology on the universal path space agree in the realm of path-connected spaces. In the paper under review the authors first answer a question from the above-mentioned paper by constructing an SLT Peano space that is not semi-locally simply connected. They then introduce a relative version of the strong SLT property with respect to a subgroup \(H\) of the fundamental group (\(H\)-SLT property). This paper is a systematic study of this property. Results include: a connection between the \(H\)-SLT property and the existence of the (semi)covering space corresponding to the subgroup \(H\); and a coincidence of the whisker and the lasso topologies on the fundamental group and the universal path space (and their natural quotients via \(H\)) for strong \(H\)-SLT spaces in the case of path connected, locally path connected spaces.











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