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General Topology/Pointed spaces and support
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pointed topological space A pointed topological space is a pair where is a topological space and .
morphism of pointed topological spaces A morphism of pointed topological spaces , and is a continuous function such that .
support Let be a continuous map, where is a distinguished point. Then the support of is defined to be
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Often, is a topological magma with identity, and is the identity. For instance, and would be a possibility.