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There is an analogous construction for topological spaces without basepoint. The
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with the circle, while the loop space construction is right adjoint to the
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and the spheres can be obtained via suspensions of each-other, i.e.
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Topospaces wiki – Loop space of a based topological space
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with the compact-open topology. The free loop space of
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does not have a group structure for arbitrary spaces
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of the same space; this duality is sometimes called
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Index

Loop space functor
topology
mathematics
pointed
topological space
continuous
circle
compact-open topology
concatenation
A∞-space
homotopy-coherently
associative
set
path components
equivalence classes
group
fundamental group
functor
right adjoint
cartesian product
reduced suspension
stable homotopy theory
computer science
currying
hom functor
Eckmann–Hilton duality
suspension
Eckmann–Hilton duality
natural
homeomorphism

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