page_title: Fiber bundle
hierarchical_section_title: Fiber bundle
caption_attribution_description: Round hairbrush
context_page_description: In mathematics, and particularly topology, a fiber bundle is a space that is locally a product space, but globally may have a different topological structure. Specifically, the similarity between a space and a product space is defined using a continuous surjective map
  that in small regions of E behaves just like a projection from corresponding regions of to. The map, called the projection or submersion of the bundle, is regarded as part of the structure of the bundle. The space is known as the total space of the fiber bundle, as the base space, and the fiber.
  In the trivial case, is just, and the map π is just the projection from the product space to the first factor. This is called a trivial bundle. Examples of non-trivial fiber bundles include the Möbius strip and Klein bottle, as well as nontrivial covering spaces. Fiber bundles such as the tangent bundle of a manifold and more general vector bundles play an important role in differential geometry and differential topology, as do principal bundles.
context_section_description: In mathematics, and particularly topology, a fiber bundle (or, in British English, fibre bundle) is a space that is locally a product space, but globally may have a different topological structure. Specifically, the similarity between a space  and a product space  is defined using a continuous surjective map
  that in small regions of E behaves just like a projection from corresponding regions of  to .  The map , called the projection or submersion of the bundle, is regarded as part of the structure of the bundle.  The space  is known as the total space of the fiber bundle,  as the base space, and  the fiber.
  In the trivial case,  is just , and the map π is just the projection from the product space to the first factor.  This is called a trivial bundle. Examples of non-trivial fiber bundles include the Möbius strip and Klein bottle, as well as nontrivial covering spaces.  Fiber bundles such as the tangent bundle of a manifold and more general vector bundles play an important role in differential geometry and differential topology, as do principal bundles.
  Mappings between total spaces of fiber bundles that "commute" with the projection maps are known as bundle maps, and the class of fiber bundles forms a category with respect to such mappings.  A bundle map from the base space itself (with the identity mapping as projection) to  is called a section of .  Fiber bundles can be specialized in a number of ways, the most common of which is requiring that the transitions between the local trivial patches lie in a certain topological group, known as the structure group, acting on the fiber .
caption: A cylindrical hairbrush showing the intuition behind the term fiber bundle. This hairbrush is like a fiber bundle in which the base space is a cylinder and the fibers (bristles) are line segments. The mapping 
    
      
        
          π
          :
          E
          →
          B
        
      
      {\displaystyle \pi \colon E\to B}
    
   would take a point on any bristle and map it to its root on the cylinder.
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