Bourbaki

Proposition 1

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Topologie algébrique, chapter I, § 5. Revêtements principaux

Every morphism of principal fibre spaces is an isomorphism.

Let f:B×G→B×Gf: B\times G\rightarrow B\times G be a morphism of the trivial principal fibre space (B×G(B\times G, pr1)_1) into itself and let φ:B×G→G\varphi : B\times G\rightarrow G be the continuous mapping pr2∘f_2\circ f, so that f(b,g)=(b,φ(b,g))f(b, g) = (b, \varphi (b, g)). For every b∈Bb\in B and all g,h∈Gg,h\in G, one has φ(b,gh)=φ(b,g)⋅h\varphi (b, gh) =\varphi (b, g)\cdot h, whence φ(b,g)=φ(b,e)⋅g\varphi (b, g) =\varphi (b, e)\cdot g, where ee denotes the identity element of G. The morphism ff is therefore an isomorphism whose inverse morphism f−1f^{-1} is defined by f−1(b,g)=f^{-1}(b, g) = (b,φ(b,e)−1g)(b, \varphi (b, e)^{-1}g) for (b,g)∈B×G(b, g)\in B\times G.

Now let E and E′E' be principal fibre spaces and let f:E→E′f: E\rightarrow E' be a morphism of principal fibre spaces. In view of property (FP), for every point b∈Bb\in B, there exists an open neighbourhood U of bb such that the principal fibre spaces EUE_U and EU′E'_U are trivializable. By passing to subspaces, ff induces a morphism fU:EU→EU′f_U: E_U\rightarrow E'_U of principal fibre spaces; by what precedes, this morphism fUf_U is an isomorphism. In particular, fb:Eb→Eb′f_b: E_b\rightarrow E'_b is a bijection. There then exists a unique mapping g:E′→Eg: E'\rightarrow E which induces the bijection fb−1f_b^{-1} by passing to subspaces. By Proposition 4 of I, p. 19, the mapping gg is continuous, hence ff is an isomorphism of principal fibre spaces.

Bourbaki sets the proof directly after the statement, and the corpus does not separate them, so what is above is the statement and its proof together.

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