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Pullbacks of fibrations are fibrations
Statement
Let be a Hurewicz or Serre fibration and continuous. The pullback projection , where and , is a fibration of the same type. Use ordinary subspaces and products in ordinary spaces, and kified subspaces and k-products in CGWH. No surjectivity or AC is required.
Facts & Assumptions
HLP supplies one lift of a compatible homotopy problem. Hurewicz and serre fibrations
Pairing continuous maps gives a continuous map into a product, without its separate surjectivity/choice clause. A map into a product is continuous iff each of its components is; the projections are continuous and open; and each projection is surjective when every factor is nonempty, which for an infinite index set uses the Axiom of Choice
A continuous ambient map landing in a subspace is continuous into that subspace. Subspace topology: the traces of the open sets, its closed sets and its bases, the continuity of the inclusion, and the characteristic property of a map into a subspace
Proof
Given: Continuous and with , for an allowed test space .
Write . Then . By F1 the base homotopy has a lift with and . This uses exactly the original test class: every space for ordinary Hurewicz, every CGWH space for its CG version, or every disk for Serre.
Set . Its coordinates are continuous, it lands in the pullback by , and F2–F3 give continuity. In CGWH this is the same categorical pairing into the kified pullback; the CG source property gives the kified target map. Its initial value is , and . Thus it solves the required HLP problem.
Empty parameter spaces have the empty lift; if the pullback is empty, every allowable initial-map problem has empty parameter space. Disk dimension zero is included in step 1.1. Constant base maps, point bases, and satisfy the same equations, with no uniqueness or regularity needed. Only one existential HLP witness is used; no indexed selections are made. This proves the claim for both types.
Depends on
- Hurewicz and serre fibrations
- A map into a product is continuous iff each of its components is; the projections are continuous and open; and each projection is surjective when every factor is nonempty, which for an infinite index set uses the Axiom of Choice
- Subspace topology: the traces of the open sets, its closed sets and its bases, the continuity of the inclusion, and the characteristic property of a map into a subspace
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Sources
- May, A Concise Course in Algebraic Topology (standard reference, not scraped)
- Hatcher, Algebraic Topology (standard reference, not scraped)