In mathematics, especially in algebraic topology, the mapping space between two spaces is the space of all the (continuous) maps between them.
Viewing the set of all the maps as a space is useful because that allows for topological considerations.
in the mapping space is exactly a homotopy.
A mapping space can be equipped with several topologies.
A common one is the compact-open topology.
Typically, there is then the adjoint relation and thus
is an analog of the Hom functor.
(For pathological spaces, this relation may fail.)
It can be equipped with the weak or strong topology.
A basic approximation theorem says that
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