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Hurewicz fibration

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Definition

Let EE and BB be topological spaces and let p ⁣:E→Bp \colon E \to B be a continuous map. Write I=[0,1]I = [0, 1]. The map pp is a Hurewicz fibration if it has the homotopy lifting property with respect to every topological space XX. This means the following. Let H ⁣:X×I→BH \colon X \times I \to B be a homotopy and let h~0 ⁣:X→E\tilde{h}_0 \colon X \to E be continuous with p∘h~0=H(−,0)p \circ \tilde{h}_0 = H(-, 0). Then there is a homotopy H~ ⁣:X×I→E\tilde{H} \colon X \times I \to E with p∘H~=HandH~(−,0)=h~0.p \circ \tilde{H} = H \quad \text{and} \quad \tilde{H}(-, 0) = \tilde{h}_0.

Remarks

Example: for spaces BB and FF, the projection p ⁣:B×F→Bp \colon B \times F \to B is a Hurewicz fibration. Given HH and h~0=(H(−,0),g)\tilde{h}_0 = (H(-, 0), g), the lift H~(x,t)=(H(x,t),g(x))\tilde{H}(x, t) = (H(x, t), g(x)) works.

Non-example: the inclusion p ⁣:{0}→Ip \colon \set{0} \to I is not a fibration. Take XX a point, H(t)=tH(t) = t and h~0=0\tilde{h}_0 = 0: a lift would satisfy p(H~(1))=1p(\tilde{H}(1)) = 1, but 11 is not in the image of pp.

Covering maps and fibre bundles over paracompact Hausdorff bases are Hurewicz fibrations. If pp is a Hurewicz fibration and BB is path-connected, all fibres p−1(b)p^{-1}(b) are homotopy equivalent. Every Hurewicz fibration is a Serre fibration, where the lifting property is only required for XX a cube InI^n or a CW complex, but not conversely.

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