Covering spaces Hatcher question 6.

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Solution 1:

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the composition is not a covering space because there is no open neighboorhood of the "connecting point" that pullbacks homeomorphically onto copies of itself.

For any neighboorhood you try, you will have to take a small circle in it, and this circle will be pulled apart in one of the pullbacks.

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