Examples
The wedge sum of two circles is homeomorphic to a figure-eight space. The wedge sum of n circles is often called a bouquet of circles, while a wedge product of arbitrary spheres is often called a bouquet of spheres.
A common construction in homotopy is to identify all of the points along the equator of an n-sphere . Doing so results in two copies of the sphere, joined at the point that was the equator:
Let be the map, that is, of identifying the equator down to a single point. Then addition of two elements of the n-dimensional homotopy group of a space X at the distinguished point can be understood as the composition of and with :
Here, and are understood to be maps, and similarly for, which take a distinguished point to a point . Note that the above defined the wedge sum of two functions, which was possible because, which was the point that is equivalenced in the wedge sum of the underlying spaces.
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