1. Introduction
The symmetry breaking in any system involves a wide variety of topological excitations and it contains the associated topological constraints. The preparations of homotopy groups and related decompositions provide meaningful insights into the phases of a system after the symmetry is broken [
1]. The homotopy decomposition in the classifying space is constructed considering that the space contains torsion-free groups [
2]. The special homotopy classes in a category of based spaces are proposed allowing the decomposition of stable homotopy. The formulation is based on positive filtration of the space and the Toda bracket [
3]. The decomposition and related decomposed homotopy types for metrizable
spaces are formulated in [
4]. Interestingly, often the homotopy type of original space and the decomposed space are very similar in
spaces. Moreover, the cellular decomposition
of
(
n-sphere) in higher dimension (
) results in the formation of
n-manifold denoted by
, which is also homeomorphic to
. If
are metric continua with the absolute neighbourhood retract then there is a isomorphic functional continua
between the fundamental groups
and
. It indicates that if
is compact as well as connected space and
is an upper semicontinuous decomposition of
into the corresponding compact quotient space
, then
and
have same homotopy type. However, this observation holds if and only if the quotient space
is finite dimensional in nature.
There are varieties of fundamental groups based on the nature of topological spaces. It is known that in a connected and compact metric space, the fundamental groups can be finitely generated [
5]. In the loop based topological space
, the quasitopological fundamental group
is a fundamental group variety with inherited quotient topology [
6]. Interestingly, if a topological space
does not have any universal cover then the fundamental groups are non-discrete. Moreover, the quasitopological fundamental group is homotopy invariant in nature. It is illustrated that a locally path connected metric space
is
-shape injective if the fundamental groups given by
are separated. Hence, a locally path connected space is homotopically path-Hausdorff if the fundamental group
follows separation axioms in
topological space. The Peano continuity is defined in the compact metric space, which is a connected space (including the locally connectedness property). There exists homeomorphism between a fundamental group in one-dimensional Peano continuum and another fundamental group in the Peano continuum on a plane if the map is continuous [
7]. Moreover, a set of homotopy fixed points derived from a planar Peano continuum coincides with a point set representing a space, which is not a (locally) simply connected space. In one-dimensional wild space with Peano continuum, the fundamental group determines the respective homeomorphism type. Note that the loops of fundamental groups in a planar space (set) are homotopy rigid [
7].
In this paper, the two different varieties of homotopy decompositions are proposed in a connected topological space. The aim is to analyze the variations in algebraic and topological properties of homotopy decompositions in quotient topological spaces depending on the connectedness of decomposed subspaces as well as fundamental groups. The main difference between the proposed decomposition varieties is the variations of connectedness of the decomposed subspaces. However, every variety of homotopy decomposition considers connected fundamental groups having different base points. The analysis of decomposed homotopy within quotient topological space is presented maintaining Hausdorff property. The decomposed quotient topological space extends Sierpinski space symmetrically with respect to origin in specific case. In the following subsections (
Section 1.1 and
Section 1.2), brief descriptions about the concepts of homotopy decomposition and motivation for this work are presented.
1.1. Homotopy and Decomposition
The fundamental groups in a space can be formulated in various different ways. In general, the fundamental group
of a group manifold denoted by
is Abelian. It is shown that if the fundamental group of homogeneous space is solvable then it can be finitely generated [
8]. If
is the exterior of a knot based at point
, then the fundamental group of knot exterior can be defined as
and in such case the homotopies fix the boundary points [
9]. The Kampen fundamental group is variety of fundamental groups in a topological space, where such groups are dependent on the homeomorphism in subspaces [
10]. In other words, the Kampen fundamental group needs identification of homeomorphic subsets of underlying topological space. It is important to note that, Kampen fundamental group considers separable and regular topological spaces. As the simplexes are constructed with the possibility of inclusion of deformation, hence the underlying topological space is considered to be an arc-wise connected space. Interestingly, the Kampen fundamental groups can be generated as arc-wise connected components by using countable generators. If
are two one-connected spaces, then the Postnikov homotopy decomposition of
reduces space
into a point [
11]. A topological space is not separable if it is path connected and most possibly a convex space. However, this concept is further refined in hyperspace topological structures. If
is a space then the topology in hyperspace is in
containing every closed subsets equipped with Vietoris topology of exponential type [
12]. The compactness of Vietoris topological hyperspace and the compactness of original space
are equivalent in nature. The ordered arc maintains connectedness in a hyperspace by following the ordered set inclusion principle. As a result, the continuum in a topological hyperspace is decomposable if and only if it is a union two proper subcontinua.
The compact Lie groups form classifying spaces and the corresponding homotopy theory is developed for those classifying spaces. The homotopy decomposition of such classifying spaces are constructed considering that maximal torus
exists in such spaces [
13]. The similar homotopy decomposition results were proposed by A. Borel considering the existence of normalizer
of torus forming the Weyl group given by
. It is important to note that the Lie group is a connected group supporting isomorphism and cohomology of primes. The corresponding homotopy decomposition applies the algebraic functors of category theory [
13]. Specifically, the functors maintain left-adjoint property. From the geometric point of view, the groups of symplectomorphisms on symplectic manifolds are considered for generating homotopy on the topological groups [
14]. This means that symplectomorphic groups of manifolds are considered as a class of topological groups. The initial results are formulated based on symplectomorphic group actions on contractible spaces. In such case, a specific condition is maintained that spaces should be compatible to almost complex symplectic manifolds. The constructions employ various aspects of homotopy pushout decomposition, canonical projections and amalgamation of topological groups [
14]. Interestingly, the concept of tubular neighbourhood in a contractible space is introduced to analyze homotopy. Note that, in this case the homology commutes with sequential colimits of
topological spaces with closed inclusion [
14]. Moreover, the homotopy decomposition follows that the homotopy colimits maintain weak contraction and a weak equivalence relation in contractible spaces, generating a quotient space.
1.2. Motivation
The theories of homotopy and fundamental groups of algebraic topology have several applications. The properties of fundamental groups and homotopy differ depending on planarity, connectedness and retraction within a space. In general, the homotopy decomposition considers different forms of symmetries and homeomorphisms. However, an interesting question is: if such symmetry and homeomorphism is relaxed in a connected topological space, then what would be the properties of decompositions? What would be the nature of homotopy decompositions within the quotient topological spaces if the fundamental groups are connected? Moreover, if the connected fundamental groups differ in homotopic rigidity, then what would be the structural properties of connected quotient topological spaces? These questions are addressed in this paper in relative details. It is illustrated that, various homotopy decompositions with different forms of connectedness as well as homotopic rigidity give rise to different sets of properties in the decomposed quotient topological spaces. Interestingly, in specific cases, the decomposed quotient space generated from homotopy decomposition extends Sierpinski space symmetrically with respect to origin. However, the trivial group structure in Sierpinski space is preserved within the extended decomposed quotient topological space.
Rest of the paper is organized as follows. The preliminary concepts are presented in
Section 2. The proposed definitions and main results are presented in
Section 3 and
Section 4, respectively. The discussion about interrelation between the decomposed quotient space and Sierpinski space is illustrated in
Section 5. Finally,
Section 6 concludes the paper.
2. Preliminary Concepts
In this section a set of basic definitions and preliminary concepts are presented to establish the notions about topological spaces and homotopy. Note that the symbol denotes 1-sphere in a complex plane by following the standard representation. Let be a point set and be a subset of power set of . The structure is called a topological space if the following axioms are satisfied by it: (I) , (II) and, (III) . It indicates that the topological space includes indiscrete topology, countably infinite union of subspaces and finite intersection between subspaces. A function between two topological spaces is continuous if such that , where are open neighbourhoods of respectively. Let two continuous functions be defined between two spaces as, and . The functions are called homotopic if there exists continuous such that, and . If we consider that is a set of continuous functions then it prepares two base points in the space for some . If we consider two such continuous functions, and then is called a path homotopy if following properties are satisfied: (I) , (II) , (III) and (IV) .
The fundamental group in at a base point is given by containing the homotopy class and is the homotopy product such that is a loop at base point . If are distinct base points in path homotopies (not necessarily fundamental groups) then the homotopy product in topological space is given as: , where and . Note that, the homotopy functions may belong to different path homotopy classes, which are equivalent classes each. Moreover, the homotopy product maintains the algebraic condition given by, , where are two homotopy classes in .
Two circle functions are called circle homotopic if there exits a homotopy given by such that the following condition is maintained: . In the topological space , if is a subspace then is a retract if and only if is continuous and the identity is maintained.
3. Connected Fundamental Groups and Decomposed Homotopy
In this section, a set of definitions are formulated for topological path embeddings, homotopy decompositions, and the generation of decomposed quotient topological spaces. In this paper, sets and represent sets of reals and integers, respectively. Note that, we consider two separable Hausdorff topological spaces and for the constructions. The open set denotes neighbourhood of and the similar concept also applies to for some point in the corresponding topological space. If is topologically homeomorphic to then it is denoted by . It is important to note that, the proposed definitions and results consider multiple connected as well as homeomorphic fundamental groups, where at least one group is circle homotopy rigid. This indicates that, if we consider as a fundamental group in , then it is homotopy rigid with respect to a set of circle groups such that is closed and there exists a homotopy equivalence with homeomorphism , where the equivalence relation is preserved as .
3.1. Topological Path Embedding
The topological path embedding closely follows the concept of generalized curve embeddings within topological spaces [
15]. Let
be an arbitrary set and
be a Hausdorff topological space. The continuous injective function
is a topological path embedding such that
if
. The functional composition involving such topological path embedding is employed in later sections to construct homeomorphic curve embedding and associated structures for homotopy decompositions. In particular, we are interested in arbitrary open paths (i.e., not loops) generated from the corresponding arbitrary set. This means that, the topological open path embedding does not involve any homotopy class. However, in order to generate such path embedding with homeomorphism to a given arbitrary curve represented by a function, the open paths are composed from the function with homeomorphism as defined below.
3.2. Homeomorphic Embedding of Curve
Let be a continuous open curve. The topological embedding is a homeomorphic open path embedding if such that , where is injective and continuous in .
Specifically, we consider such that and are distinct points in the embedded open curve. This paper considers multiple fundamental groups in , which are connected through such points.
3.3. Connected Fundamental Groups
Let and be two fundamental groups in such that with and . The fundamental groups and are called connected in if and .
It is considered that such that and , where . Thus, the fundamental groups are placed within the separation of subspaces in a path-connected topological space.
Remark 1: Evidently, there exist two path-homotopies and generating the fundamental groups and in . The corresponding homotopy classes associated to and are denoted by and respectively. For the simplicity of notation, the fundamental groups in are distinguished by indicated base points within the topological space.
3.4. Decomposed Homotopy Loop
If the homotopy loop
then the decomposition of
is given by
such that:
Remark 2: In this paper we consider the equivalence relation allowing homotopy rigid. However, it is maintained that for if not specified otherwise in some cases. Moreover, the connected variety of decomposition is prepared in a way so that , where are half-open. Note that, if the decomposition is fully disconnected then and the decomposed components are open. In any case, the decomposition maintains the condition given as by following homotopy rigid.
Once the decomposition of a homotopy loop is completed, the quotient topological maps can be performed to generate quotient topology under decomposition. In this case, two separable (i.e., not path connected) topological spaces are considered which are denoted by and , where .
3.5. Decomposed Quotient Topology
Let the two separable Hausdorff topological spaces be given by
and
. The surjective quotient map
is called a decomposed quotient map if the following conditions are satisfied:
The concept of decomposed quotient map enforces surjective property of the map while generating quotient topology from the partitioned set-valued domain. It is illustrated in later sections of this paper that the generated quotient topology under decomposition can retain discrete group algebraic structures. However, first, we present a definition of the related cyclic generator and the corresponding concept of cycle number.
3.6. Cyclic Generator and Cycle Number
Let
be a homotopy loop in
in
and
be an isolated point set. The function
is defined as:
Hence, the element is the cyclic generator of within preparing a cyclic group itself represented as . The cycle number denotes the repetition of cycle in .
Remark 3: It is easy to verify that if then completes a full closed cyclic sequence in . Note that is identified with the identity element.
4. Main Results
A set of main results are presented in this section. It is important to note that the decomposed quotient map between two separable topological spaces does not inherently generate group structure. If the homotopy decomposition is a connected variety then the quotient map cannot be a uniform surjection and the co-domain cannot induce a group structure. This observation is presented in next theorem.
Theorem 1: The decomposed quotient topologycannot induce group structure fromintomaintaining uniform surjection.
Proof: Let and be two Hausdorff topological spaces such that . Let be a fundamental group in subspace associated to homotopy class with , where . If is a decomposed quotient map, then and such that and , where . Suppose, such that it maintains in . Let us assume that, be a group of order 3, where is closed in . Furthermore, let us consider that in the decomposed quotient topological subspace the following group algebraic properties hold as, and with . However, the definition of indicates that such that , where and . If condition is maintained in , then is not invertible and it is a multi-valued surjection. This leads to the contradiction about formation of induced due to decomposed quotient map, because it is not a uniform surjection. Hence, as a consequence is not an induced group structure in the decomposed quotient topology in under uniform surjection. □
Example 1: The following example illustrates the concept. Let be a unit circle group in the complex z-plane and . In multiplicative group structure if in then such that . Moreover, it is true that . Suppose, are half-open in and for . If condition is maintained in by following concept of connected decomposition then it leads to . Moreover, in , one can select and . As a result, if we consider such that and , then assuming exists one can conclude that , where . However, this leads to contradiction because is a multi-valued surjection maintaining and . Hence is not a uniform surjection inducing a group structure in .
However, if the homotopy decomposition is a disconnected variety then the surjection is uniform, and the decomposed quotient map induces a group structure. This property is presented as a corollary below.
Corollary 1: If the decomposition of is fully disconnected such that then there is uniform quotient surjection inducing a group of order 3 in , where is the disconnected decomposition.
Proof: Let be a disconnected decomposition of considering fundamental group in the topological space . Thus, in the decomposition maintains , where both are open sets. If the disconnected decomposition is formulated as, such that and the corresponding uniform surjection is given by generating quotient topology such that and then is a group of order 3 if and only if and , where . □
Remark 4: It is interesting to note that, the multi-valued surjection (i.e., non-uniform surjection) can be transformed under function composition to induce a group structure in quotient topological space. Let
be a power set of
and
be a single valued function following the concept of axiom of choice [
16,
17]. If we restrict
such that
if
and apply axiom of choice if
, then
can induce a group
in quotient subspace in
.
In general, the orientations of various sets of path homotopies influence the behaviour of homotopic product () of functions in homotopy classes in the fundamental groups. For example, in , where is the orientation reversing. However, the orientations in decomposed homotopy paths also influence the formation of induced groups in quotient topological space. The appropriately oriented homotopy paths in decomposed homotopy loops can directly induce additive group of order 3 in the decomposed quotient topological spaces. This observation is presented in next theorem.
Theorem 2: Ifandare two orientation reversing paths in decomposed homotopy loop inthen there exists decomposed quotient mapgeneratingin quotient topological space.
Proof: Let
and
be two Hausdorff topological spaces, which are not path connected. Let
be a fundamental group in
and
in the homotopy class such that
. If
and
are two orientation reversing paths in decomposed homotopy loop
of
, then one can define them as:
Let us prepare the corresponding decomposition
as given below:
This preserves the connected decomposition condition that, . Suppose is a decomposed quotient map in integer space () such that and . Thus, it leads to and . Moreover, suppose the decomposed quotient map maintains . Hence, the generated quotient topological subspace from orientation reversing paths in the decomposed homotopy loop induces a group , where in . □
The induced group structure formation in quotient topological spaces from the decomposed homotopy loop can be further extended involving multiple fundamental groups in a connected topological space. Suppose is a path connected topological space and two disjoint fundamental groups are presented by , within two separable subspaces (because topological space is Hausdorff). It can be illustrated that the second quotient topological subspace can acquire a group structure from the first one if a bijective composition can be established between the two subspaces. This is explained in the next theorem.
Theorem 3: Ifandare two fundamental groups in a path connected topological spacewith two decomposed quotient maps,for the two corresponding homotopy loops,then there exists a bijectionsuch thatis a group of order 3.
Proof: Let
and
be two Hausdorff separated topological spaces (
). Let
and
be two fundamental groups in
, where
and
are two decomposed quotient maps from
to
. Suppose, the two corresponding disjoint homotopy loops are
and
. If the decompositions are denoted by
and
. Let there be a bijection
between the quotient topological subspaces. One can formulate the bijection as:
Recall that
is a group of order 3. This leads to the conclusion that:
Hence, the bijective composition structure is also a group in . □
Remark 5: It is important to note that, in the above theorem we have considered that ; however we have not put condition that in . The above theorem is valid as long as condition is maintained.
Evidently, multiple fundamental groups in a topological space can induce distributed disjoint groups within decomposed quotient spaces. The following corollary illustrates that there exists an isomorphism between groups in decomposed quotient spaces if they have equal order.
Corollary 2: If and are topologically homeomorphic in then and are isomorphic in .
Proof: Let and are two Hausdorff topological spaces, where and are disjoint topologically homeomorphic fundamental groups in . Suppose homotopy loop exists such that . If is a homeomorphism then . Note that with order 3 is generated in decomposed quotient topological space of . However, due to homeomorphism it is true that and the structure also has order 3 in . This leads to conclusion that, (isomorphic) in topological space . □
We have so far dealt with the properties of multiple fundamental groups and associated decomposed quotient mappings within the topological spaces. However, earlier it is mentioned that we are considering connected fundamental groups and such groups are placed in a connected topological space. Moreover, the decomposed quotient spaces are generated in a separable topological space. Hence, it is interesting to analyze the inherent locality of homeomorphism of the topological spaces in this structural setting. The following theorem shows that an equivalence relation between the two path embeddings exists.
Theorem 4: Ifis a local homeomorphism in topological subspaces such thatthen there existssuch that.
Proof: Let and be two separated Hausdorff topological spaces, where is a local homeomorphism in topological subspaces . Suppose is a continuous embedding such that and , where and are two fundamental groups. As is a local homeomorphism in topological subspaces, so such that and is a continuous bijection. Let be a continuous function such that and , where and . This leads to the conclusion that such that . As a result, the equivalence relation is maintained in respective topological subspaces. □
Lemma 1: The following observations can be made further from the above theorem: if such that then and are not path connected, however if and are each locally path connected open neighbourhoods, then is a connected subspace in . As a result, are locally dense sets.
Proof: The topological space is Hausdorff and such that and . The similar property holds for . Thus the subspaces and are consisting of countable dense sets if the open neighbourhoods maintain . Hence, the subspaces and are connected by . Moreover, are locally dense and are also locally path connected. □
There exists a set of homotopically equivalent paths between topological spaces containing connected fundamental groups and decomposed quotient subspaces. The following theorem presents this property considering as homotopic function product. Note that denotes the equivalence of path homotopy between two homotopic paths in the topological space.
Theorem 5: Ifis a homeomorphism inwithandis a bijection inthen there are oriented homotopy paths inandsuch that, whereand.
Proof: Let be a homeomorphism in topological space such that is an isomorphic path in . Let be a bijection in and is a decomposed quotient map between and . Suppose one defines the oriented homotopy paths in and as and respectively. However, as thus is in . Moreover, if the constant path is defined as such that and then there are equivalences of path homotopies denoted by and . Thus, if one selects two homotopic paths and , then and . This leads to the conclusion that in . □
Remark 6: Note that in the homotopy classes the following condition is maintained: . However, it is easy to verify that and . This leads to the condition that . Hence, one can conclude that and . Moreover, the following commutativity is maintained: .
The connectedness of fundamental groups gives rise to an interesting property. It indicates that it is possible to formulate a homotopically equivalent path involving multiple homotopy classes. This property is illustrated in next theorem.
Theorem 6: Ifandare two connected fundamental groups in topological spacewithandthensuch thatexists, wherefor some.
Proof: Let
be a topological space and
are two connected fundamental groups. Consider
as a path for the corresponding embedding in
. Suppose
such that there exist two disjoint path homotopies given by
and
. As result, one can consider
,
to formulate the sets of homotopic functions, which is given as:
Suppose a continuous function
exists such that
. Moreover, the continuous function maintains the condition,
in the topological space
. Furthermore, the continuous function
maintains the following properties:
Let be a subspace and there are subspaces given by such that the combined subspace is given by, . Thus is continuous in the corresponding topological subspace. As a result, if we consider a homotopy path in then it will maintain equivalence of path homotopy as .
There exists a relation between isolated point set and the decomposed quotient topological space if the element of the point set is a generator of the induced group in the decomposed quotient space. This relation has an effect on the finiteness of cycle number. This observation is presented in the following theorem. □
Theorem 7: Ifgenerates a path homotopy in fundamental grouptheninduces infinite cycle number, i.e.,in.
Proof: Let be a path homotopy in the fundamental group in the topological space . Note that, the interval is uncountable and compact real subspace in nature. As in , hence . Moreover, it is true that by the definition. If one chose and the corresponding interval , then the interval is also uncountable. This leads to conclusion that, and , where in . However, this further leads to the equality involving the cycle number of the cyclic generator that , where and . Hence, the product induces cycle number in . □
This indicates that a continuous homotopic path in the fundamental group generates a countable infinite cycle number of cyclic generators of the group in the decomposed quotient topological subspace.