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\begin{lemma}\label{lem:univ-cover-of-groupoid}
Let $(A,a_0)$ be a pointed type, $(B,b_0)$ a pointed
groupoid, and $f : (A,a_0)\ptdto (B,b_0)$ a \covering.
groupoid, and $f : (A,a_0)\ptdto (B,b_0)$ a pointed \covering.
Then $f$ is universal if and only if $A$ is contractible.
\end{lemma}

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\cref{def:funext} to get an identification of type $f \eqto_{A\to B} gh$.
The pointing path of $gh$ is also $g_0 : b_0 \eqto g(c_0)$.
We get an identification of type $(f,f_0)\eqto_{A\ptdto B} (gh,g_0)$
from an identification of $g_0 = (g_0\inv f_0) f_0$.%
since $g_0 = (g_0\inv f_0) f_0$.%
\marginnote{Draw the triangle!}
The type $(A,a_0)\ptdto (C,c_0)$ is contractible since $A$ is
contractible, yielding that $h$ is unique.
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In the next section we will see that the exponential \covering
of the circle is in fact universal.


\subsection*{Old, discuss status 10.08.23}

We already defined a \covering $f:A\to B$ to be universal if $A$ is connected
and all $a\eqto_A a$ (for $a:A$) are connected.
If moreover $B$ is a pointed, connected groupoid we shall argue that
we actually can speak of \emph{the} universal \covering
in \cref{def:universalcover}.

Recall \cref{cor:fib-vs-path} stating that all the fibers of a map $f:A\to B$
are sets if and only if each
\[
\ap{f}: (a=a')\to (f(a)=f(a'))
\]
is an injection.
Assume $f:A\to B$ is a universal \covering and $B$ is a groupoid.
We prove that $A$ is contractible.
Being contractible is a proposition, so we may assume
we have an element $a$ of $A$ since $A$ is connected.
By \cref{xca:connected-trivia} and \ref{xca:component-connected}
it suffices to prove that $a=a$ is contractible.
By \cref{xca:connected-trivia-2}, using that $a=a$ is connected,
it suffices to show that $a=a$ is a set.
Using that $\ap{f}$ is an injection, we can apply the remark after
\cref{lem:sum-of-fibers} and obtain that $a=a$ is a set since
$f(a)=f(a)$ is a set, since $B$ is a groupoid.
Thus:

\begin{lemma}\label{lem:univ-cover-1type}
If $f:A\to B$ is a universal \covering and $B$ is a groupoid,
then $A$ is contractible.
\end{lemma}

Now assume $(B,b_0)$ is a pointed connected groupoid and $f:A\to B$
a universal \covering. Since $A$ and $\sum_{b:B}(b_0\eqto_Bb)$ are both
contractible, and $B$ is connected, we have
$\Trunc{(A,f)=(\sum_{b:B}(b_0\eqto_Bb),\fst)}$.
Hence if $(B,b_0)$ is a pointed connected groupoid, all
universal \coverings can be merely identified with a canonical one.
Moreover, the type of universal \coverings is equivalent to
$\bn 1 \to B$, and hence to $B$ itself,
so the type of \emph{pointed} universal \coverings is contractible.
This justifies the following definition.

Note that, for a general pointed connected type $(B,b_0)$, we have that
$(b_0\eqto_B b)$ is a family of \emph{sets} exactly when $B$ is a groupoid.
The type family $(b_0\eqto_B b)$ is also important if $B$ is not a groupoid,
but is then not a \emph{set} bundle.\footnote{%
Of course, the type $\sum_{b:B}(b_0=b)$ is contractibe
by \cref{lem:thepathspaceiscontractible}, for any type $B$.}

\begin{remark}
What's so ``universal'' about this?
The universal \covering over the pointed connected groupoid $(B,b_0)$ coincides with the constant function $\cst{b_0}:\bn 1\to B$ (with value $b_0$), and seems like an unnecessary complicated representation were it not for the manifold practical value of the formulation that we've given.
In particular, we recognize the set of symmetries $b_0\eqto_Bb_0$ as the preimage of $b_0$ under the first projection from $\uc{b_0}B$ to $B$; ultimately this will show that the study of symmetries coincides with the study of the universal \covering.

The first instance of this comes already in the next section, where we show in \cref{cor:S1groupoid} that the symmetries in the circle are given by the set of integers $\zet$ by showing that the universal \covering and the exponential \covering (\cref{def:RtoS1}) of the circle coincide.

That said, one way to see that the constant function $\cst{b_0}:\bn 1\to B$
\emph{does} deserve the label universal is the following.\marginnote{%
Any $(a_0,p) : f^{-1}(b_0)$ gives rise to a commutative diagram:
\[
\begin{tikzcd}[column sep=small,ampersand replacement=\&]
\bn 1\ar[rr,dashed,"\cst{a_0}"]\ar[dr,"\cst{b_0}"'] \& \& A \ar[dl,"f"] \\
\& B \&
\end{tikzcd}
\]}
Given any function $f:A\to B$ and $(a_0,p): f^{-1}(b_0)$,
we get a function $\cst{a_0}:\bn 1\to A$, and $p:b_0=f(a_0)$ gives rise to
an element in $\cst{b_0}\eqto_{\bn 1\to B}f \circ \cst{a_0}$.
In other words, any such $f$ is ``a factor of $\cst{b_0}$''.
Note, however, that this depends on $f^{-1}(b_0)$ being non-empty
(classically, this is often demanded of a covering, which distinguishes it from our \coverings),
and the factorization depends on the element $(a_0,p)$ used.

The situation is even simpler for pointed maps:
For any \emph{pointed} map $f : A \ptdto B$, with $(a_0,f_0):f^{-1}(b_0)$,
there is a \emph{unique} pointed map $g : \bn 1 \ptdto A$
(given by the base point of $A$), and this of course also gives
the unique way to write $f$ as a ``pointed factor of $\cst{b_0}$''.
\end{remark}

We'll continue the general study of set bundles in \cref{sec:gsets}
We'll continue the general study of \coverings in \cref{sec:gsets}
and indeed throughout the book.
For now, we'll focus our attention on the circle and set bundles over it.
For now, we'll focus our attention on the circle and \coverings over it.

\section{The symmetries in the circle}
\label{sec:symcirc}
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