The finite-space characterization of fibrations
The finite-space characterization of fibrations
Let be a cellular map of finite CW complexes. Let 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 and be the indicated maps. The finite-space fibration conjecture. The map is a fibration if and only if it factors as with
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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