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If U is a Hausdorff topological space, a path is a continuous map p: [0,1] → U. The path is closed if the endpoints coincide: p(0) = p(1). A closed path is also called a loop.
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Bump, D. (2004). The Universal Cover. In: Lie Groups. Graduate Texts in Mathematics, vol 225. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-4094-3_13
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