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    Wesleyan Topology Qualifying Exam, August 4, 2008

    SRC-WESLEYAN-TOP-SUMMER-2008

    Area
    Topology
    Status
    draft
    Source

    7 problems.

    1. The continuous image of a compact space is compact — Part I Problem 1; repeated exactly as the canonical continuous-image-of-compact exercise
    2. Products of Hausdorff spaces are Hausdorff — Part I Problem 2; repeated exactly as the canonical product-Hausdorff exercise
    3. Explicit path homotopy from a path followed by its reverse to the constant path — Part I Problem 3
    4. Examples and impossibilities relating homotopy, retracts, and low homology groups — Part II Problem 1
    5. Fundamental groups, universal covers, and simplicial homology of standard spaces — Part II Problem 2
    6. Change of basepoint isomorphism for the fundamental group — Part II Problem 3
    7. Uniqueness of lifts from a connected space — Part II Problem 4