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Covering maps and perfect maps
Henno Brandsma
a note in Topology Explained
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Problem: Let f\colon A --> B be a covering map, where A is
path connected, B is compact and \pi(B) is finite.
Prove that A is compact.
We provide a proof via some facts about perfect maps.
Date: September 1, 2003
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