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in Exercise 5 (on Connectedness) MA 231 : Topology August-December, 2013 October 08 22

1. Solve Problems 30, 31, 32 , 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39 , 40, 41, 42 , 43 in Chapter 3 of the book Basic Topology by Armstrong. 2. Solve Problems 5, 6 , 7, 8, 11 in Pages 158 ( 24) in the book Topology (2nd Ed., 2013) by Munkres 3. Solve Problems 1, 3 , 5 in Page 162 ( 25) in the book Topology (2nd Ed., 2013) by Munkres. 4. Prove or disprove each of the following : (i) R3 a plane is connected. (ii) R3 a straight line is connected. (iii) S 1 S 1 \ ((S 1 {1}) ({1} S 1 )) is connected. (iv) (R {0}) {(x, y ) R2 : xy = 1, x > 0} R2 is connected. (v) Let X and Y be path connected spaces and (x, y ) X Y . If each X and Y has more than one elements then X Y \ {(x, y )} (with product topology) is path connected.
Let A be a countable set in R2 . Show that R2 \ A is path connected. 5.

6. Show that R2 \ (Q (R \ Q)) is connected. 7. Let A and B be two subsets of a topological space. If A B = , (X \ A) B = and B is connected then show that B (A (X \ A)) = .
Let (X, ) be a topological space. Dene a binary relation on X as x y if there 8. is a path from x to y . Show that is an equivalence relation. Show that the -classes are nothing but path components (i.e., show that C is a -class if and only if C is a path component).

9. Give examples of topological spaces X such that : (i) X is connected but not path connected, (ii) X is connected but not locally connected, (iii) X is locally connected but not connected, (iv) X is path connected but not locally path connected and (v) X whose connected components are not open sets.
Let L , . . . , L be n straight lines through (0, 0, 0) in R3 . Show that R3 \ (L L ) 10. 1 n 1 n is path connected.

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