Some Algebraic Properties of Universal and Regular Covering Spaces

Let X be a connected space, X be a space, let p : X -→ X be a continuous map and let (X, p) be a covering space of X. In the first section we give some preliminaries from covering spaces and their automorphism groups. In the second section we derive some algebraic properties of both universal and regular covering spaces (X, p) of X and also their automorphism groups A(X, p).

• Ahmet Tekcan

• covering space
• universal covering
• regular covering
• fundamental group
• automorphism group.

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