On the Spanier Groups and Covering and Semicovering Spaces

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Ali Pakdaman, Behrooz Mashayekhy, Hamid Torabi

Publication date: 18 July 2012

Abstract: For a connected, locally path connected space $X$, let $H$ be a subgroup of the fundamental group of $X$, $p{i}_1(X,x)$. We show that there exists an open cover $calU$ of $X$ such that $H$ contains the Spanier group $pi(U,x)$ if and only if the core of $H$ in $p{i}_1(X,x)$ is open in the quasitopological fundamental group $p{i}_1^{qtop}(X,x)$ or equivalently it is open in the topological fundamental group $p{i}_1^{au}(X,x)$. As a consequence, using the relation between the Spanier groups and covering spaces, we give a classification for connected covering spaces of $X$ based on the conjugacy classes of subgroups with open core in $p{i}_1^{qtop}(X,x)$. Finally, we give a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of a semicovering. Moreover, we present a condition under which every semicovering of $X$ is a covering.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus (57M05) Low-dimensional topology of special (e.g., branched) coverings (57M12) Homotopy groups, general; sets of homotopy classes (55Q05) Covering spaces and low-dimensional topology (57M10)

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