Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
4660258 Topology and its Applications 2008 9 Pages PDF
Abstract

Two natural questions are answered in the negative:•“If a space has the property that small nulhomotopic loops bound small nulhomotopies, then are loops which are limits of nulhomotopic loops themselves nulhomotopic?”•“Can adding arcs to a space cause an essential curve to become nulhomotopic?” The answer to the first question clarifies the relationship between the notions of a space being homotopically Hausdorff and π1-shape injective.

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