Paths in a disjoint union #
A path in a disjoint union Σ i, X i never leaves the summand it starts in, because the unit
interval is connected: this is Mathlib's ContinuousMap.exists_lift_sigma. This file draws the
two consequences that the fundamental groupoid of a disjoint union needs, namely that the
endpoint of a path out of the i-th summand again lies in the i-th summand, and that a path
between two points of the i-th summand is the image of a path in that summand — the latter also
for path homotopy classes.
The inclusion of a summand is spelled out as the anonymous bundled map
⟨Sigma.mk i, continuous_sigmaMk⟩ rather than ContinuousMap.sigmaMk i, because only the former
has an application that reduces definitionally, which the dependently typed rewrites downstream
need.
Main declarations #
TauCeti.sigmaFst_eq_of_path: a path out of thei-th summand of a disjoint union ends in thei-th summand.TauCeti.exists_path_map_sigmaMk_eq: a path between two points of thei-th summand is the image of a path in that summand.TauCeti.exists_quotient_map_sigmaMk_eq: the same for path homotopy classes.
References #
This supplies the fundamental-groupoid half of the disconnected case of Stage 2, item 8 of
TauCetiRoadmap/UniversalCovers/README.md.
A path out of the i-th summand of a disjoint union ends in the i-th summand.
A path between two points of the i-th summand of a disjoint union is the image of a path
in that summand.
A path homotopy class between two points of the i-th summand of a disjoint union is the
image of a class in that summand.
A path homotopy class out of the i-th summand of a disjoint union ends in the i-th
summand.