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		Connected SpaceA Space   is connected if any two points in   can be connected by a curve lying wholly within  . ASpace is 0-connected (a.k.a. Pathwise-Connected) if every Map from a 0-Sphere to theSpace extends continuously to the 1-Disk.  Since the 0-Sphere is the two endpoints of an interval(1-Disk), every two points have a path between them.  A space is 1-connected (a.k.a. Simply Connected) ifit is 0-connected and if every Map from the 1-Sphere to it extends continuously to a Map from the2-Disk.  In other words, every loop in the Space is contractible.  A Space is  -MultiplyConnected if it is  -connected and if every Map from the  -Sphere into it extends continuouslyover the  -Disk. 
 
 A theorem of Whitehead says that a Space is infinitely connected Iff it is contractible.  See also Connectivity, Locally Pathwise-Connected Space, Multiply Connected, Pathwise-Connected,Simply Connected
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