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Let's take a simple example.
Both a cylinder and Möbius strip consist of a circle with a line segment associated with each point of the circle. The cylinder is considered truly equivalent to the direct product S1 X line segment while the Möbius strip is only locally like S1 X line segment. Ok, what does that mean? Does the direct product have any properties which aren't local?
I mean, I thought S1 X line segment L is merely [tex]\{(p,x)|p \in S^1, x \in L\}[/tex], period. Both the cylinder and Möbius strip would be instances of this general thing, differing from each other only in additional properties, e.g. the transition functions.
Both a cylinder and Möbius strip consist of a circle with a line segment associated with each point of the circle. The cylinder is considered truly equivalent to the direct product S1 X line segment while the Möbius strip is only locally like S1 X line segment. Ok, what does that mean? Does the direct product have any properties which aren't local?
I mean, I thought S1 X line segment L is merely [tex]\{(p,x)|p \in S^1, x \in L\}[/tex], period. Both the cylinder and Möbius strip would be instances of this general thing, differing from each other only in additional properties, e.g. the transition functions.
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