Semi-locally simply connected
- Semi-locally simply connected
In mathematics, in particular topology, a topological space "X" is called semi-locally simply connected if every point "x" in "X" has a neighborhood "U" such that the homomorphism from the fundamental group of U to the fundamental group of "X", induced by the inclusion map of "U" into "X", is trivial. That is, every loop in U can be deformed to a point. This is true of the 'best' spaces such as manifolds and simplicial complexes.
Evidently, a space that is locally simply connected is semi-locally simply connected, as is every simply connected space. An example of a space that is not semi-locally simply connected is the Hawaiian earring: the union of the circles in the Euclidean plane with centers (1/"n", 0) and radii 1/"n", for "n" a natural number. Give this space the subspace topology. Then all neighborhoods of the origin contain circles that are not nullhomotopic.
The property of semi-locally simple connectivity is weaker than that of local simple connectivity. To see this, consider the cone on the Hawaiian earring. It is contractible and therefore semi-locally simply connected, but it is clearly not locally simply connected.
In the theory of covering spaces, a space has a universal cover if and only if it is path-connected, locally path-connected, and semi-locally simply connected.
Topology of fundamental group
In terms of the natural topology on the fundamental group, a space is semi-locally simply connected if and only if its topological fundamental group is discrete.
References
* Daniel K. Biss, " [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-9890(200010)107%3A8%3C711%3AAGATTF%3E2.0.CO%3B2-I A Generalized Approach to the Fundamental Group] " The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 107, No. 8 (Oct., 2000), pp. 711–720
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