On locally 1-connectedness of quotient spaces and its applications to fundamental groups

Abstract

Let X be a locally 1-connected metric space and A1,A2,...,An be connected, locally path connected and compact pairwise disjoint subspaces of X. In this paper, we show that the quotient space X/(A1,A2,..., An) obtained from X by collapsing each of the sets Ai?s to a point, is also locally 1-connected. Moreover, we prove that the induced continuous homomorphism of quasitopological fundamental groups is surjective. Finally, we give some applications to find out some properties of the fundamental group of the quotient space X/(A1,A2,...,An).