The finite-space characterization of fibrations

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Let f:X→Bf:X\to B be a cellular map of finite CW complexes. Let PP be the finite-space map from the three-point diagram with one distinguished point and two indistinguishable points to its quotient identifying the distinguished point with that pair, and let W→V\mathsf{W}\to\mathsf{V} and V→{∙}\mathsf{V}\to\{\bullet\} be the indicated maps. The finite-space fibration conjecture. The map ff is a fibration if and only if it factors as f=flflrf=f_lf_{lr} with

fl∈Pl,flr∈Plr∩{W→V, V→{∙}}lr.f_l\in P^l,\qquad f_{lr}\in P^{lr}\cap\{\mathsf{W}\to\mathsf{V},\,\mathsf{V}\to\{\bullet\}\}^{lr}.

Moreover, every locally constant map over a paracompact space, and more generally every numerable fibre bundle of separable metric spaces, admits such a decomposition. The source presents this as a conjectural finite-space description, with attribution to Dold for the numerable-bundle context.

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Misha Gavrilovich, “Finite combinatorics implicit in the basic definitions of topology”, arXiv:2409.20464 (2024).

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