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Covering map

Type of continuous map in topologyIntuitively, a covering locally projects a "stack of pancakes" above an open neighborhoodU{\displaystyle U} onto U{\displaystyle U}In topology, a covering or covering projection is a map between topological spaces that, intuitively, locally acts like a projection of multiple copies of a space onto itself.

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