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fiber bundle

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Meaning

  1. noun Synonym of vascular bundle.
  2. noun An abstract object in topology where copies of one object are "attached" to every point of another, as hairs or fibers are attached to a hairbrush. Formally, a topological space E (called the total space), together with a topological space B (called the base space), a topological space F (called the fiber), and surjective map π from E to B (called the projection or submersion), such that every point of B has a neighborhood U with π−1(U) homeomorphic to the product space U × F (that is, E looks locally the same as the product space B × F, although its global structure may be quite different).
    A Möbius strip is a fiber bundle which looks locally (i.e., over a connected proper subset of its base space) like the corresponding part of a cylinder S1×[0,1] (a Möbius strip and a cylinder have isomorphic base spaces). A Klein bottle is a fiber bundle which looks locally like the corresponding part of a torus S1×S1 (again they could be thought of as sharing the same base space S1; cutting out even a single point of that base space makes the cut Klein bottle isomorphic to the cut torus).

Similar words

fibre bundle bundle vector bundle base seifert fiber space seifert fibered space seifert fibre space subbundle tangent bundle fiber

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