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G fibration

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In algebraic topology, a G-fibration or principal fibration is a generalization of a principal G-bundle, just as a fibration is a generalization of a fiber bundle. By definition, given a topological monoid G, a G-fibration is a fibration p: PB together with a continuous right monoid action P × GP such that

  • (1) p ( x g ) = p ( x ) for all x in P and g in G.
  • (2) For each x in P, the map G p 1 ( p ( x ) ) , g x g is a weak equivalence.
  • A principal G-bundle is a prototypical example of a G-fibration. Another example is Moore's path space fibration: namely, let P X be the space of paths of various length in a based space X. Then the fibration p : P X X that sends each path to its end-point is a G-fibration with G the space of loops of various lengths in X.

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    G-fibration Wikipedia