The question and its solution are given below:
My question is:
Should the deleted point of the torus be the intersection point of the two circles? If yes why? and if no, why also?
The question and its solution are given below:
My question is:
Should the deleted point of the torus be the intersection point of the two circles? If yes why? and if no, why also?
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You must not remove the intersection $p$ of the circles $S_l$ (longitude circle) and $S_m$ (meridian circle) because in that case the complement $T \setminus \{p\}$ cannot retract to $S_l \cup S_m$ (a retract $A$ of a space $X$ must be a subset of $X$).
Hatcher's square is the product $I \times I$ with $I = [-1,1]$. He removes te origin $(0,0)$ which after identification of opposite sides does not lie on $S_l \cup S_m$.