How statement and proof provenance work
The first chip identifies the source of the statement or construction; the second identifies the source of its local proof or verification.
- Literature-sourced: the exact statement appears in a cited source; only wording and notation differ.
- AI-adapted: a semantically identical restatement of literature-sourced material, modulo indexing, notation, and boundary cases adopted by the library.
- AI-generated: a genuinely novel statement formulated by AI, with no source for the claim itself.
These labels describe origin, not correctness: citations and verification chips remain separate evidence.
Principal g bundle and associated fiber bundle
Definition
Let be a topological group, as in Topological group: multiplication and inversion are continuous, with identity . A right principal -bundle is a continuous map with a continuous right action , satisfying , and , together with equivariant bundle charts over an open cover. Equivariance means whenever . Charts use ordinary products as in Locally trivial fiber bundle. In each fiber the action is free and transitive: right multiplication on has those properties and the chart identifies the actions. Freeness alone is not the definition.
A left -space is a topological space with a continuous map such that and . Effectiveness of this action is not required. Define with the ordinary quotient topology, and write for its points. Precisely, the relation is the orbit relation of the right action . Its action law is , and its generating relations are exactly the displayed ones. Thus the equivalence relation and quotient are defined without choosing orbit representatives.
The projection is well-defined and continuous by For a quotient map , a map out of is continuous iff its composite with is; a continuous map on constant on the fibres of factors uniquely through ; and a composite of quotient maps is a quotient map, since is continuous and constant on every orbit. This is the associated fiber-bundle construction; the next proposition proves its local triviality and pullback property. The quotient construction and projection already make sense before that proof.
If is empty then is empty. If is empty the associated space is empty even for nonempty ; this is allowed by our bundle convention. For singleton the construction is the orbit projection of the principal bundle. For the trivial group it is the product with over the chart-identified base. No AC is used.
Depends on
- Topological group: multiplication and inversion are continuous
- Locally trivial fiber bundle
- For a quotient map $q : X \to Y$, a map out of $Y$ is continuous iff its composite with $q$ is; a continuous map on $X$ constant on the fibres of $q$ factors uniquely through $q$; and a composite of quotient maps is a quotient map
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Sources
- May, A Concise Course in Algebraic Topology (standard reference, not scraped)
- Hatcher, Algebraic Topology (standard reference, not scraped)
- Peter Selick, MAT1345 lecture notes (standard reference, not scraped)