Questions tagged [fibration]

A branch of topology that deals with the notion of a fiber bundle.

In topology, a branch of mathematics, a fibration is a generalization of the notion of a fiber bundle. A fiber bundle makes precise the idea of one topological space (called a fiber) being "parameterized" by another topological space (called a base). A fibration is like a fiber bundle, except that the fibers need not be the same space, rather they are just homotopy equivalent. (Wikipedia)

Further reading : Fibre bundles

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What is a mapping class group, and how can we use it to understand fibrations of 3-manifolds when the fiber is a surface?

So I'm reading this book, kind of committed to reading the entire thing, and in the section I'm up to the author starts using some language regarding monodromies and mapping class groups. Having never studied that particular topic, I find myself…
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When and why do vanishing cycles of Lefschetz fibrations exist?

On page 6 of the article Symplectic Lefschetz fibrations with arbitrary fundamental groups, the authors state that for a Lefschetz fibration (with total space of dimension 4) the retraction of the regular fibre onto a critical fibre contains a…
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