Join (topology)

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Join (topology)

In topology, a field of mathematics, the join of two topological spaces A and B, often denoted by

, is defined to be the quotient space

where I is the interval [0, 1] and R is the equivalence relation generated by

At the endpoints, this collapses

to

and

to

.

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