Preface |
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Acknowledgments |
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4 | (3) |
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2 Covering Spaces as a Toy Model |
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2.2 Paths and Their Lifts |
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2.3 The Fundamental Group |
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18 | (9) |
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27 | (6) |
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3 Basic Properties of Fiber Bundles |
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3.1 Defining Fiber Bundles |
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33 | (5) |
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3.2 Fiber Bundles with Structure Groups |
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38 | (6) |
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44 | (6) |
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3.4 Compact-Open Topology |
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50 | (7) |
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3.5 Fiber Bundles and Group Action |
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57 | (10) |
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3.6 Quotient Spaces by Group Actions |
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67 | (19) |
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86 | (13) |
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4 Classification of Fiber Bundles |
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4.1 Maps between Fiber Bundles |
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99 | (9) |
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108 | (6) |
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4.3 Fiber Bundles and Homotopy |
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114 | (12) |
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4.4 Classification of Fiber Bundles: Simple Cases |
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126 | (6) |
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4.5 Classifying Fiber Bundles over CW Complexes |
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132 | (9) |
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4.6 CW Complexes and Homotopy |
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141 | (14) |
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4.7 The First Half of the Proof of the Classification Theorem |
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155 | (5) |
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4.8 Fiber Bundles and Homotopy Groups |
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160 | (8) |
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4.9 Construction of Universal Bundles: Steenrod's Approach |
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168 | (9) |
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4.10 Construction of Universal Bundles: The Bar Construction |
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177 | (14) |
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4.11 Covering Spaces Revisited |
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191 | (8) |
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199 | (82) |
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5.1 Why Further Generalizations of Fiber Bundles? |
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199 | (1) |
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5.2 Serre Fibrations and Hurewicz Fibrations |
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200 | (5) |
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205 | (8) |
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5.4 Comparing Fiber Bundles and Fibrations |
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213 | (11) |
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5.5 Deforming Continuous Maps into Fibrations |
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224 | (6) |
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5.6 Homotopy Fiber Sequences |
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230 | (6) |
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236 | (7) |
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5.8 Fibrations and Homotopy Groups |
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243 | (12) |
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255 | (4) |
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5.10 Duality between Fibrations and Cofibrations |
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259 | (14) |
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273 | (8) |
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281 | (10) |
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6.1 What is Homotopy Theory? |
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281 | (3) |
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6.2 Many Kinds of Homotopies |
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284 | (1) |
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6.3 Framework of Homotopy Theory |
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285 | (6) |
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Appendix A Related Topics |
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A.1 The Meaning of Compact-Open Topology |
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291 | (4) |
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295 | (9) |
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A.3 Simplicial Techniques |
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304 | (9) |
Bibliography |
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313 | (8) |
Index |
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