On the discontinuity of the _1-action

DOI10.1016/J.TOPOL.2018.07.008MaRDI QIDQ1663850zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jeremy Thomas Brazas

Publication date 24 August 2018

Published in Topology and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.07976

zbMATH Keywords

continuous group actionquasitopological fundamental groupquasitopological homotopy group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Homotopy groups, general; sets of homotopy classes (55Q05) Homotopy groups of special spaces (55Q52) Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus (57M05)

Abstract: We show the classical $p{i}_1$-action on the $n$-th homotopy group can fail to be continuous for any $n$ when the homotopy groups are equipped with the natural quotient topology. In particular, we prove the action $p{i}_1(X)imesp{i}_n(X)op{i}_n(X)$ fails to be continuous for a one-point union $X=Aveemathbb{H}_n$ where $A$ is an aspherical space such that $p{i}_1(A)$ is a topological group and $mathbb{H}_n$ is the $(n-1)$-connected, n-dimensional Hawaiian earring space $mathbb{H}_n$ for which $p{i}_n(mathbb{H}_n)$ is a topological abelian group.

Review text

Let \(X\) be a pointed topological space and let \(\Omega^n(X)\) denote the space of pointed maps \(f: S^n\rightarrow X\) with the compact-open topology, where \(S^n\) represents a pointed \(n\)-sphere. For \(n\geq 1\), the \(n\)th homotopy group \(\pi_n(X)\) may be endowed with the natural quotient topology inherited from \(q: \Omega^n(X)\rightarrow \pi_n(X),q(f)=[f]\). In this paper it is proved that the group action \(\pi_1(X)\times \pi_n(X)\rightarrow \pi_n(X)\) of \(\pi_1(X)\) on \(\pi_n(X)\) fails to be continuous for a one-point union \(X=A\vee \mathbb{H}_n\) where \(A\) is an aspherical space such that \(\pi_1(A)\) is a topological group and \(\mathbb{H}_n\) is the \((n-1)\)-connected \(n\)-dimensional Hawaiian earring space such that \(\pi_n(\mathbb{H}_n)\) is a topological abelian group. Here \(A\) being aspherical means \(\pi_n(A)=0\) for \(n\geq 2\).

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